Justin Deabler

Justin Deabler lives in Brooklyn. His full-length plays include YY: A Year in the Life of Stelly at the Telly, Prayer of the Expelled, Contracts, and Monster in the Peephole, as well as the shorter works The Visitation and Nighty Night, Bittyboo. His work has been produced or developed by the LGBT Community Center of NYC, Six Figures Theatre Company, American Theater of Actors, Barrow Street Theatre, and Lynx Ensemble Theater, of which he is a founding member.

His play YY has been developed under grants from the Arch & Bruce Brown Foundation, the Mary Duke Biddle Foundation, and the Ernest O. Reaugh Trust. A 2004 production of Contracts was coordinated with various talk-backs and progressive community-related events in which Nadine Strossen, president of the ACLU, disability activist Simi Linton, and others participated. Contracts was subsequently presented at the Eighth Annual Conference of the Association for the Study of Law, Culture, and the Humanities, University of Texas-Austin.

As an actor, eight-year-old Justin played a small but crucial role in the Humble, Texas community-theater production of The Best Christmas Pageant Ever, after which he withdrew from the stage.

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