BIOGRAPHY
Born and raised in California, DEBORAH LOHSE is a comedian, dancer and choreographer living and working in New York City. Her work has been presented in theaters, public spaces and festivals including DANCE NOW Joe’s Pub, American Dance Festival, Chicago Contemporary Circus Festival, United Solo Theater Festival, La Mama Moves, Winter Garden at Brookfield Place and The Stonewall Inn. She has received commissions from Women In Motion, Mantra Percussion, SUNY Purchase, DANCE NOW and Island Moving Company as well as artist residencies from The Yard, Marble House Project, Djerassi Resident Artist Program, Acadia Summer Arts Program and SILO.
As a performer, Lohse has worked with theater directors Michael Preston, Barbara Karger and Anne Kauffman, visual artists Suzanne Bocanegra and Paulina Olowska and choreographers Monica Bill Barnes, Cori Olinghouse, Doug Elkins and the collaborative dance comedy crew LMnO3 (Lohse, Marquis and Oakley), Katy Pyle/Ballez, David Parker/The Bang Group, Ashley R.T. Yergens and currently as her alter ego indefatigable cabaret persona TruDee.
Lohse is a teaching artist for Lincoln Center Education and New York City Ballet and has taught classes and workshops for Ballez, Manhattan Star Academy, Ballet Tech, Lake Tahoe Dance Festival, Lumberyard, Dancewave, The New School, UW Milwaukee, UW Madison, DeSales University, Muhlenberg College and Purdue University.