Mr. Deaton is also a playwright, writing the libretto for Glen Cortese’s monodrama The Swan Knight, and penning the one-man-show We Lived Only for the Music: Max Lorenz and the Third Reich, which had its premiere in December 2018, at Madison Lyric Stage, and being presented by Madison Lyric Stage once again in January 2025.
He has also written a number of translations and adaptations including adaptations of Shakespeare’s Scottish Play, Macbeth, and English translations of Humperdinck’s Opera Hansel und Gretel and Schoenberg’s Erwartung.
Mr. Deaton wrote two new plays in 2020-21: A Memory of Truth? and Elegy of a Fallen Angel, A Memory of Truth was produced in workshop in 2021 and is being presented again in May 2025, and Elegy of a Fallen Angel which was produced in 2023, both with Madison Lyric Stage.