Mr. Deaton is also a playwright, writing the libretto for Glen Cortese’s monodrama The Swan Knight, and penning the new play We Lived Only for the Music: Max Lorenz and the Third Reich, which had its premiere in December 2018, at Madison Lyric Stage.
He has also written a number of translations and adaptations including adaptations of Shakespeare’s Scottish Play, Macbeth, and English translations of the Humperdinck’s Opera Hansel und Gretel and Schoenberg’s Erwartung.
Mr. Deaton has recently completed a new play A Memory of Truth? This exciting new play with music is having a workshop in September 2020, and will be presented as a full production in June of 2021, with Madison Lyric Stage