Deborah Hurwitz is a millennial renaissance woman living in Manhattan and Los Angeles.  Trained as a concert pianist with a major solo debut at age 12, she discovered the joys of electronic production in the studios at Princeton University and brought both musical worlds together in New York as a composer, conductor, producer and performer. In film and television, she has created pieces for Highlander: The Raven, Guiding Light, Sesame Street, MTV Networks, CNN and dozens of other television programs. She scored the cult favorite horror feature HPE in addition to a handful of award-winning short films, and created arrangements for feature films The Crossing Guard (Miramax) and City of Industry (MGM), working with director Sean Penn and legendary producer Phil Ramone.  She wrote a dance piece for Jennifer Muller/THE WORKS that toured the world for three years and she was featured in Lincoln Center's Meet the Artist series. In the recording industry, Deborah has worked as an arranger and conductor for platinum artists such as Sinead O'Connor, Diana King and Sarah Brightman, and she has written and produced two indie albums as solo artist Deborah Marlowe. She was the Vocal Director of the soundtrack to the ABC Muppet Special Elmopalooza, which won the 1999 Grammy for Best Children's Album, was the Associate Conductor and Synth Programmer of the Jersey Boys Broadway Cast Album, which won the 2007 Grammy for Best Cast Album and went gold this year. 

In the summer of 1999, she spent four months on tour with Cyndi Lauper and Cher as a keyboardist and vocalist and became addicted to glitter eye shadow, vinyl pants and 20,000 screaming fans.  How to follow up?  Don full body paint and conduct a 600-person nude opera at the Burning Man Festival in Nevada, obviously.  Deborah's desert adventures in 2000 (and three times since) inspired her to take up a second residence on the west coast, where she duplicated her New York studio and began her Proserpina phase, assiduously avoiding east coast winters at her Santa Monica beach pad.  She found herself, ironically enough, scoring films in New York and developing new rock musicals in California:  West coast projects included full-length concept albums and/or live workshop productions of Funny Business, a show about stand-up comics, One Day in America, a collection of stories told through dance to updated classic rock tunes, and Sheba, a biblical epic built on gospel funk and Middle Eastern disco; those same years in Chelsea yielded scores for award-winning short film The Reader, teen prom movie Choices, a multitude of TV and radio commercials, and web sites like OneMoreStory.com, which presents classic children’s books as narrated, animated pages for children and their parents to read. 

In her spare time, Deborah has also enjoyed a flourishing career in the theatre.  She is currently conducting and performing in the acclaimed hit musical Jersey Boys, which won four 2006 Tony Awards including Best Musical.  In addition to her on- and offstage roles in the Broadway show, she also serves as Music Technical Designer and Synth Programmer for Jersey Boys worldwide and has opened five companies to date, including the U.S. National Tour and sit-down productions in Chicago, Las Vegas and London.  She made her Broadway conducting debut with Miss Saigon, played keyboards for Jekyll and Hyde and The Who's Tommy and toured with the original U.S. companies of Mamma Mia!, Miss Saigon and Aspects of Love. As part of these smash hit productions, she has appeared on The Tonight Show, The Late Show with David Letterman,The Tony Awards and half a dozen national morning shows. Interviews with Deborah were featured on CNN's Showbiz Today and E! Entertainment's FYE!.

While Jersey Boys keeps Deborah quite busy these days, she is thrilled to be launching a brand new compositional effort in collaboration with Jay Warner, noted author, multiple Grammy winner and veteran publisher.  Jay is leading a team of promoters, distributors and publicists to place Deborah's wealth of songs and scores into the public eye.   For samples of her work, check out the Sounds page, as well as the solo work of her singer/songwriter alter ego, Deborah Marlowe .  Deborah's scoring reel Keys to the Kingdom is available upon request.