Debórah Eliezer (She/Her)
Artistic Director, Board Member, Artist Cohort

Debórah Eliezer (“di-BOR-uh el-ee-AY-zr”) is a mixed identity white/SWANA theater maker, cultural activist and California fire survivor living and working on the unceded territories of the Ramaytush Ohlone and Southern Pomo. She is the founding Artistic Director of Aviva Arts, an Associate Artist with Golden Thread, an artEquity arts facilitator alumna, and serves on the MENA Alliance of Theatre Makers steering committee (MENATMA) and formerly on the board of the Alliance of Jewish Theatre.

Passionate about the power of human transformation, her work focuses on disrupting assumptions about art, human values and society. Formerly the Artistic Director of foolsFURY Theater, she has devised numerous world premieres, working with playwrights Katie Pearl, Kate Tarker, Yussef el Guindi, Denmo Ibrahim, Torange Yeghiazarian, Fabrice Melquiot, Angela Santillo, Sheila Callaghan, Doug Dorst, Ben Yalom and Dan Chumley. Eliezer wrote and performs (dis)Place[d] which toured the FURY Factory Festival of Ensemble Theater, Ko Fest, Olivia Cruises and Limmud UK in 2019 and is featured in Michael Malek Najjar’s book, Middle Eastern American Theatre: Communities, Cultures and Artists. She stars in the short film Wresting Place written and directed by Coral Cohen release date TBD. As a professional voiceover, you may have heard her voice in over 25 Leapfrog Toys, Sims 2, 3 and 4 video games or numerous radio ads. Eliezer teaches throughout the Bay Area and maintains a private coaching practice. She holds a BA Cum Laude from SFSU, a certificate in Sound, Voice Music Healing from CIIS and is a certified yoga instructor.