Debbie Bisno, Producer and Consultant

Debbie Bisno produces The Moth, a New York based storytelling series and literary cabaret hosted by CNN correspondent and humorist Andy Borowitz and comedian Jonathan Ames. The Moth is a quarterly series in New Haven presented at Long Wharf Theater and the Quinnipiack Club. Other Connecticut based projects include: The Cabaret at CHOW and the GET LIT authors series in conjunction with RJ Julia Booksellers. Ms. Bisno currently works with Fellowship Place, The Princess Grace Foundation in New York, and artist Jerry Meyer.

Recent projects include: The International Association of New Haven, and Berkeley Repertory Theater, helping to launch Tony Kushner and Maurice Sendak's premier of BRUNDIBAR, a children's opera, originally performed in Terezinstadt. She worked with PBS/KCET Hollywood on the BBC documentary, Inside the Nazi State, commemorating the 60th Anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, directed by Lawrence Rees. The project was designed as an innovative outreach initiative in conjunction with the film – linking present day issues about tolerance and prejudice to the lessons of the Holocaust.

Bisno served as a consultant to A.S.K. Theatre Projects, a division of the Skirball Foundation, helping to establish a program granting national fellowships to burgeoning theatre artists; and she was Director of Strategic Partnerships for New Haven's 9th International Festival of Arts & Ideas, managing corporate sponsorships and special events.

She was Associate Producer to the late Broadway partnership Sageworks (August Wilson/Benjamin Mordecai), Creative Director for Stern Productions (The Producers, STOMP, Anne Frank, among others), and produced Steppenwolf Theatre Company's 25th Anniversary Special hosted by Bill Murray.

Broadway and Off Broadway: Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, with Whoopi Goldberg & Charles Dutton, The Crucible starring Laura Linney & Liam Neeson, and David Henry Hwang's Flower Drum Song and Sherry Glaser's Family Secrets.

From 1992-1999, as founder of Chicago's acclaimed theatre ensemble, Roadworks Productions, Bisno produced seven season's of Midwest and World premieres including Kenneth Lonergan's This is Our Youth, Patrick Marber's Dealer's Choice, the LA debut of Mike Leigh's Ecstasy, Eric Bogosian's suburbia, Chuck Mee's Orestes: The Rock Musical, and the world premiere of John Barth's The End of the Road.

She is Associate Producer of the IMAX film Michael Jordan to the Max, and helped to launch the IMAX feature PULSE: a STOMP Odyssey.

Bisno is an alumnus of Northwestern University.