Debora Threedy has degrees in theatre arts and law and recently retired after thirty years of teaching law at the University of Utah to spend more time writing plays. After a lifetime doing theatre primarily as an actor and director, about twenty years ago, she turned to playwriting. Since then, she has had eight full-length plays produced by various theatres in Utah, as well as a number of shorter plays. She has been invited three times to workshop her plays at the Utah Shakespeare Festival, in 2006, 2016, and 2022. In 2010, she won a national playwriting contest, the Fratti-Newman New Political Play Contest in New York City. Most recently, her play for children K-3, Alli and #3, toured the state in the 2021-2022 school year and was seen by more than 15,000 students in person or virtually. She co-taught a virtual Creative Aging Playwriting Workshop in 2022 and will be co-teaching it again in 2023.