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. On the stage, she originated her current role in the Broadway hit musical Jersey Boys, which won the 2006 Tony Award for Best Musical and the 2007 Grammy Award for Best Cast Album.  In addition to conducting and performing onstage with the Broadway company, she also serves as the Music Technical Designer and Synth Programmer for all Jersey Boys companies worldwide, including the First National U.S. Tour and resident companies in Chicago, Las Vegas, London, Toronto and Melbourne.  She made her Broadway conducting debut with Miss Saigon, played keyboards for Jekyll and Hyde and The Who's Tommy and toured with the First National companies of Mamma Mia!, Miss Saigon and Aspects of Love.  As part of these hit productions, she has appeared on The Tonight Show, The Late Show with David Letterman, CNN's Showbiz Tonight, E! Entertainment Television, The 2006 Tony Awards on CBS, half a dozen national morning shows and, most recently, at The White House.

Deborah has also composed extensively for film and television, creating 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 and created arrangements for feature films The Crossing Guard (Miramax/Jack Nicholson) and City of Industry (MGM/Harvey Keitel), 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 was the Vocal Director of the soundtrack to the ABC Muppet Special Elmopalooza, which won the 1999 Grammy for Best Children's Album.  In the summer of 1999, she spent four months on tour with Cyndi Lauper and Cher as a keyboardist and vocalist, released her debut CD Nice Girls Do as indie artist Deborah Marlowe 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 four times since) inspired her to take up a second residence on the west coast, where she duplicated her New York studio and began her Persephone phase, assiduously avoiding east coast winters at her Santa Monica beach pad. 

Shuttling back and forth every few months, she created full-length concept albums and music directed live workshop productions of Funny Business, a show about stand-up comics, A Day in the Life of America, a collection of stories told through dance to updated classic rock tunes, the Gothically inspired Dorian Gray and Sheba:The Musical , a biblical epic built on gospel funk and Middle Eastern disco.  Those same years in broadcast media yielded original songs and scores for festival favorites such as short film The Reader, a music video starring Deborah called Just A Dress, about sexual harrassment on the streets of New York, industrial projects for Washington Mutual and Intel, and award-winning new media 'edutainment' like OneMoreStory.com, which presents classic children’s books as narrated, animated pages for children and their parents to read.  Most recently, Deborah released her second solo CD Naked Wire and composed the opening sequence for The Veronicas' summer tour with Ashlee Simpson.

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.  Deborah's latest single, Mirror, has reached #25 on the Billboard Hot Singles Sales Charts and is enjoying a growing list of radio plays across the country.  For samples of her music, check out the Sounds page, where you can hear her work as both film composer and singer/songwriter.  Deborah's scoring reel Keys to the Kingdom is available upon request.