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Readings, Acting Roles, Performances & Speaking Engagements

 
2008 Tulsa Performing Arts Center - “Amazons, Gypsies and Wandering Minstrels & Other Selections” – one-woman performance with musicians Arthur Thompson and Leslie Brown

2008 Nimrod Literary Journal Spring Release Reading
 
2008 "Ladies Who Lunch"  - Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame

2008 First Friday opening for jazz musician, Don Diego

2008 Tulsa Youth Ballet & Oklahoma Performance Arts - “Through the Thicket”

2008 “Resonating Voices” Resonance Annual Brunch

2007 Broken Arrow Community Playhouse - “Quilters”

2007 Tulsa Performing Arts Center - “Resonating Voices”

2007 Tulsa Performing Arts Center - “Movement of Life” presented by Arthur Thompson

2007 Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony

2007 Sacred Activism Conference

2007 Bartlesville Women’s Network

2006 “Amazons, Gypsies & Wandering Minstrels” and “Bayou Stories”; Gilcrease Museum Auditorium – Fundraiser for the Mental Health Association in Tulsa

2006 “Waking Dreams” poetry and performance collaboration with Vanessa Adams Harris; Philbrook Museum in conjunction with the Pre-Raphaelite exhibit

2006 “The Woman Who Was Captured By Ghosts,” an original play by Julie Little Thunder

2005 “Amazons, Gypsies and Wandering Minstrels,” written and performed by Deborah J. Hunter, featuring “Bayou Stories” and original play for four actresses, “Feverish Whisper.”

2005 “Down the Old Hole,” an original play by John Cruncleton

2003 & 2005 Performances with Russian poet, Yevgeny Yevtushenko

2004 Tulsa Community College ; Guest Lecturer

2004 “My Poems Are Too Loud,” one-woman show

2004 “Bach to Broadway to Bebop to Blues” Juneteenth Celebration at Tulsa Performing Arts Center

2003 University of Tulsa : “Vagina Monologues”

2003-2005 Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame, performer/ emcee “Ladies Sing Jazz, Blues & Gospel,” “Bach to Bebop”, and other events


2003 Greenwood Jazz Festival

Theatre North 
2005 Playwright: The Red Shoes, as a 10-minute play 
2003 Director: The Old Settler, by John Henry Redwood 
2000-2001Actor: For Colored Girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf, by Ntozake Shange; winner of OCTA Best Ensemble Cast/Costumes 
2001 Actor & Playwright: Black Writers’ Collage (with monologues from original work Amazons, Gypsies and Wandering Minstrels)

2002 University of Tulsa ; Guest Lecturer

2002 Houston International Poetry Festival – Houston , TX

2001 Graeae, Poetry performances featuring: Brenda Moossy, Deborah Hunter and Shannon Hiatt

2001 Ozark Poets & Writers Cooperative – Fayetteville , AR

Additional stages & sites: Peace House Tulsa, Rudisill Regional Library, LivingArts of Tulsa, Heller Theater, Westby Theater, Tulsa Library, Delaware Theatre

Additional readings and performances at fundraisers, on television, radio & stage not otherwise listed

 
 
INVOLVEMENT

  

 

 August, 2003 OkRep 24-Hour Play Festival, Invitational Playwright

September, 2003, Zarrow Mental Health Symposium: Self Expression Through Writing Poetry

August, 2003 OkRep 24-Hour Play Festival, Invitational Playwright

2000 Winner of $5000 Jingle Feldman Artist/Scholar Award

Poetry appears in NIMROD, Curbside Review, Another Sun (U.K.), The Pagan’s Muse, other anthologies and publications.

Poetry chapbooks: Extreme Women and The Moon and Other Deities.

Member, Tulsa Indian Coalition Against Racism

Member, Community Outreach Committee, Mental Health Association of Tulsa

Member, Alternate ROOTS (regional organization for artists who are activists)

1999 Oklahoma Arts Council Grant Selection Committee

Member & Past member of Board of Directors, NAMI-Tulsa (National Alliance for the Mentally Ill)

Volunteer Mental Health Case Management Training Instructor

Past Officer, Board of Trustees, Church of the Restoration UU

Past Officer, Board of Directors, Center for Racial Justice

Past Member, Task Force, Tulsa Day Center for the Homeless

Past Officer, Tulsa Association of Legal Assistants

  

 

Publications

Self-published chapbooks: The Red Shoes, Thunder, The Moon and Other Deities, Extreme Women

Poems published in: Aroostook Review, NIMROD International Journal, Another Sun ( U.K. ), Curbside Review, Pedestal, The Pagan’s Muse Anthology, Alternate ROOTS newsletter, National Association of Poetry Therapists Newsletter