DEB HIETT

Deb Hiett’s play “Circle Forward” was selected for 2024 Durango Playfest, the 2023 Gulfshore Playhouse New Works Festival (FL), and the Antaeus Theatre Company “Lab Results” Series (Los Angeles), as well as being a Finalist for the 2024 Local Theater Company Lab 13 Festival and a Semifinalist for the 2024 O’Neill National Playwrights Conference. Some of Deb’s full-length plays include “The Super Variety Match Bonus Round!” (premiered at Rogue Machine Theater, Los Angeles), “Miss Keller Has No Second Book” (premiered at Gulfshore Playhouse, Naples, FL), “The Escape Thingy” (produced at South Dakota State University 2024) and “The Clearing in the Jacoby,” (both Finalists for the Reva Shiner Comedy Award). Her play “Call Time” was a Semifinalist in the 2022 Lanford Wilson New American Play Festival. She’s thrice been a Semifinalist for the O’Neill National Playwrights Conference and her play “The Presentation” was selected for the Samuel French Off-Off-Broadway Short Play Festival. She has created and performed two well-reviewed one-woman shows (Dixon Place, NYC; and Second City, L.A.), penned several award-winning monologues, and written the music, book, and lyrics for the musical “The Sunny Survival Caravan” in 2023.

Her short film “Gratitude Jar Time Capsule” won awards at the 2020 Atlanta Comedy Film Festival and the 2021 Women’s Comedy Film Festival. Her short comedy film, Open House, won 2015 Los Angeles Film Festival/FunnyorDie’s “Make ‘Em LAFF” Showcase, Best Comedy Short at the 2015 Women in Comedy Festival Film Night, and Best Video Short at iOWest’s Funny Women LA Festival.

A theater actress since her teens, Deb’s television appearances include “The Good Place,” “Barry,” “VEEP,” “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” “Documentary Now!” “Baskets,” “Parks and Recreation,” “Arrested Development,” “The Office,” and more. She’s also that red-headed female doctor in “Barbie.”

Deb’s hit humor book about the great football rivalry “When Mommy Loves Bama and Daddy Loves Auburn” is available on Amazon. She’s a member of The Dramatists Guild, Antaeus Playwrights Lab, Actors Equity, and SAG-AFTRA.  www.DebHiett.com