Debórah Eliezer

FoolsFURY Artistic Director

Debórah Eliezer, (she/her), is the Artistic Director of foolsFURY Theater, an Associate Member of Golden Thread, and an artEquity Arts Facilitator Alum. Passionate about the power of human transformation, her work focuses on disrupting assumptions about art, human values and society.  An arts administrator, theater maker and cultural provocateur, she creates with a focus on ensemble collaboration. Passionate about the power of community, her work focuses on disrupting assumptions about the relationship to art, human values and society.  With foolsFURY, Eliezer has created and performed in world premieres: Dionysus Was Such A Nice Man, by Kate Tarker, * (dis)Place[d] (writer/performer), The Unheard of World by Fabrice Melquiot,  Faulted by Angela Santillo, Port Out Starboard Home with Sheila Callaghan, Monster in the Dark with Doug Dorst, The Devil on All Sides by Fabrice Melquiot,  All You Can Eat by Steven Morgan Haskell, and The Jensen Files by Ben Yalom.

Eliezer directed and choreographed The Seeing Place, by Elizabeth Spreen and Debórah Eliezer. Choreographic credits include: Boxcar’s The Speakeasy, foolsFURY’s Port Out, Starboard Home and Monster in the Dark, Charles Mee’s Big Love, Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, and foolsFURY’s adaptation of Don Delillo’s play, Valparaiso. Incubator Series performances include: Pamela Hollings' Machiavelli Project, Lucinda Otto’s Threshold, Mia Rovegno’s The Apartment, Doug Dorst’s (R)Evolution X,  and Angela Santillo’s Sera. Eliezer is an Associate Artist with Golden Thread and has also worked with Woman’s Will, The Puppet Players, Marin Shakespeare, Antenna Theater and Traveling Jewish Theatre (TJT). She was the Founding Co-Artistic Director of Eclipse Dance Theater  from 1996-2002. 

She holds a BA Cum Laude from SFSU and a certificate in Sound, Voice, and Music Healing from CIIS. Eliezer is an artEquity arts facilitator alumna, Theaters Advancing Social Change foolsFURY representative,  serves on the Middle East North African (MENA) National steering committee and Alliance of Jewish Theatres antiracist committee.  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. With her husband she produces artist retreats and events with a focus on nature, farming and the arts.

* (dis)Place[d] will be featured in Michale Malek Najjar’s forthcoming book, Middle Eastern American Theatre: Communities, Cultures and Artists