Deborah Barrera
Deborah is a Tony award-winning Producer, representing FireMUsed Productions, LLC. Broadway Productions include: Ain’t Too Proud – The Life and Times of the Temptations; An American in Paris; American Idiot; La Cage aux Folles with Kelsey Grammer; Hands on a Hard Body; Lynn Nottage’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Sweat, One Man, Two Guvnors starring James Cordon; The Glass Menagerie directed by John Tiffany; China Doll starring Al Pacino; Hughie starring Forest Whitaker and directed by Michael Grandage; David Byrne’s Here Lies Love; The Mountaintop with Samuel Jackson; the 2014 revival of The Heidi Chronicles; Elling starring Brendon Fraser and Denis O’Hare; Sylvia revival with Matthew Brodderick; the West End production of 1984; and investments in the Broadway/touring productions of Hamilton, Freestyle Love Supreme, Shuffle Along, and Hello, Dolly!. Off Broadway, FireMUsed Productions proudly produced PigPen Theatre Company’s The Old Man and the Old Moon.
Deborah is a longtime supporter of new work, having developed several with regional theatres, and serving as a panelist with the National Endowment for the Arts. She currently works with the Edgerton Foundation in their new works funding program, and is a mentor for Theatre Accelerator. She is a Tony Awards voter and a long-standing member of the Broadway League, serving on the Legislative Council, and Diversity and Inclusion committees. In 2020, she founded the Women’s Independent Producer Group, which has joined with, in support of, the Broadway Advocacy Coalition and the Costume Industry Coalition. Her Board service includes Moises Kaufman’s award-winning Tectonic Theatre project in New York. In San Francisco, she is a standing member of the San Francisco Ballet Auxiliary Board, and works with the capital campaign team, along with annual fundraising events for Berkeley Repertory Theatre.