About
For more about Marc’s career and his artistic vision, please enjoy these interviews with Connecticut-area media: Marc Deaton: Madison’s Own Tristan; WTNH-Connecticut Style; and WMNR Fine Arts Radio, with Fred Velardi
Contact Details
Marc Deaton
info@marcdeaton.org
Madison, Connecticut
NYC, New York
MARC DEATON occupies a prominent place not only among today’s most distinctive dramatic tenors, but also as a creative and successful stage director, teacher, playwright and artistic director.
Dramatic tenor Marc Deaton has a career which spans 30 years. He has established his reputation not only through his superb musicality and electrifying stage presence, but also through his extraordinarily multi-faceted repertoire. He essays the incredibly difficult heldentenor roles of Wagner and Strauss and yet captures the nuance and intimacy of works by Mahler, Schubert and Vaughn Williams, whilst championing modern and contemporary works by Berg, Britten, Cortese, Schoenberg, and always with organic emotional depth.
He is the co-founder and Artistic Director of Madison Lyric Stage, serving as producer, director and often appearing in many of the productions in its thirteen -year history.
He directed Ernest Thompson’s play, On Golden Pond for The Old Saybrook Stage Company in January of 2020. he also served as Artistic Director of Simsbury Light Opera directing Trial by Jury, The Sorcerer in 2023 and HMS Pinafore in 2024.
Marc Deaton has been teaching vocal technique to singers for more than twenty years, providing the basic understanding of the human voice, along with the guidance about the complexities and joy of singing in his NYC and CT studios.
Bringing his expertise of vocal instruction in singing and his dramatic stage training to play, Marc Deaton has also begun training clients in the art of speaking in public, with clients in major financial institutions he enriches their presentations with clear and developed voices and elocution.
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, and is being performed on January 31 and February 1 in Madison.
Also a new play A Memory of Truth? This exciting new play had a workshop in September 2020, and again in June of 2021, with Madison Lyric Stage.
Marc’s work with music by Nathaniel Baker is being produced by Madison Lyric Stage in May of 2025. For tickets go to https://madisonlyricstage.org/tickets/
Contact Marc Deaton with any questions about teaching, singing, speech, direction or the plays, We Lived Only for the Music: Max Lorenz and the Third Reich, or A Memory of Truth?– Thank you