WHO WE ARE

Deborah Fryer stepped into filmmaking as a freelancer in 1993, and has worn almost every hat in the business since: she has researched, written, produced, directed, negotiated usage rights, edited, and/or created and tracked budgets for almost 200 documentaries and educational videos covering the environment, history, science, medicine, health care, energy, archaeology and anthropology. She has worked on projects for NOVA, Frontline, PBS, History Channel, Discovery Channel, Travel Channel, HGTV, Turner Broadcasting, American Experience, MSNBC, Free Speech TV, Warren Miller Films, National Audubon Society, the U.S. Department of Energy, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, InJoy Video Productions and Films for the Humanities and Sciences.

Deborah Fryer has also garnered much recognition for her creative nonfiction writing, which has been published in The Best Women's Travel Writing 2006, The Best Travel Writing 2005, Her Fork in the Road, The World Is a Kitchen and In the Eye, as well as The King's English, Nights Publications (a travel magazine about the Caribbean), and Siemens: Sunscape (a magazine about solar energy). Deborah Fryer won the Moondance International Film Festival Short Story Award in 2004 and 2005, and received an Honorable Mention in 2004 and 2005 from New Millennium Writings, a literary journal which called Deborah “one of the 20 up-and-coming writers in the U.S. to watch.” 

Deborah's still photographs have been recognized by Smithsonian, National Audubon Society, Brandeis Review, WGBH/NOVA, the Seattle Biomedical Research Institute, and the United Nations Environment Programme.

Deborah received her B.A. in Classics and Art History from Oberlin College in 1984, earned an M.A. in Latin at Columbia University in 1986, and went on to complete a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature and Classics at Princeton University in 1993.

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