Deborah Behrens is the managing editor of LA STAGE.  Since 2001, she has conducted more than 80 one-on-one cover story profiles and features including Annette Bening,  Angela Bassett & Laurence Fishburne, Ray Bradbury, Kirk Douglas, Jerry Herman, Sir Ben Kingsley, Megan Mullally, Bill Pullman and Lily Tomlin for both the print magazine and its subsequent online incarnation. In 2009, she won the Maggie Award for Best Interview or Profile/Trade for her LA STAGE cover story on Joan Rivers at the Western Publishing Association’s (WPA) 58th annual Maggie Awards. Considered the most prestigious publishing awards in the western United States, the Maggies honor the best in print and online magazines representing 400 consumer and trade publications.

Besides LA STAGE, Deborah has covered theatre and the arts for the popular urban blog laist.com, conducted investigative stories for Whole Life Times on organic wine, fast food and obesity as well as Valley Life magazine. An Ovation Award voter since 2002, she is a former member of the LA theatre company, etc. inc., and the volunteer women’s make-up team at Laguna Beach’s Pageant of the Masters. Her coffee table book project, Guts & Grace: Actresses at Midlife & Beyond garnered Deborah a literary agent who patiently awaits her quirky family memoir.

A seasoned corporate marketing and advertising/public relations agency executive in Los Angeles, San Francisco and Palo Alto, Deborah has directed national/international product introduction, brand messaging and media strategies for high visibility clients in technology, entertainment, food and health care. She has also conducted ideation/think tank workshops, spearheaded new business presentations and written the gamut of selling lore for ad/pr agencies in targeted consumer, social marketing and technology sectors.

Sample projects include the: national media/pre-FDA introduction of the first female condom,  branding campaign for the statewide California 5 A Day initiative, television show development and NYC food editor event for celebrity chef Nathan Hall, grand opening of AMC Entertainment’s 1000 Van Ness, San Francisco’s first stadium-style movie theatre complex, 65 city/145 seminars software product launch for Gupta Corporation’s SQLWindows and PC Expo video opener for Palm amongst others.

Deborah is a 2003 graduate of Angeles Arrien’s year-long Triumph of the Imagination: A Journey to the Heart of Creativity and Personal Leadership program. She is a former member of the Women’s Advanced Writing Circle led by Deena Metzger.

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