Déa Thatcher

Biography

Déa Thatcher composes music and songs for Theater, Film, TV, Orchestra, and Other Mixed Media. She writes Songs, Musicals, Short Stories, Poems and other Musings on a modern world. Déa got a start in community choir and theater in North Western, NJ and ow lives in Brooklyn, NY where she focuses on creating art in opposition to war and state sanctioned violence.

Select writing projects include: The Only Way Out, Lost Letters, Untitled Queer Fantasy, Hunt of the Unicorn, a collection of Tone Poems, a book of poetry and a debut album called TransVolution with her band Déa and the Drips.

THE DRIPS are a new BK based Indie trio that fuses together a gnarly potion of folk, pop, & punk-rock. The coven is made up of Déa, Aspen, and Caro, who met on a moonlit night in a dunkin-donuts parking lot. Their hex-proof cauldron bubbling with musical musings is specially brewed to seduce queer comrades far and wide.

Her work has been developed at multiple stages including living room shares, table workshops, residencies, readings, concerts, commissions and productions. Member of The Dramatists Guild, Maestra, ASCAP, Untitled Musical Group, NYCLU Artist Ambassadors and AFM Local 802. NYC Performances include Pete’s Candy Store, Powerhouse Arena, Brooklyn Art Haus, The Bureau, The Garrison Theater Co, The Duplex, 54 Below, Green Room 42, The Laurie Beechman, Symphony Space, and The Cutting Room.

Déa Thatcher recently played accordion in the Cabaret Revival Prologue on Broadway, an interactive, immersive music and dance show. She is a graduate of Berklee College of Music, where she studied Music Composition.

Select original musicals include:
The Hunt of the Unicorn (story, music, lyrics)
The Only Way Out (book, music, lyrics)
Gender Circus (music, co-lyrics, book and co-lyrics by Liv Wilson)
Lost Letters (book, music, lyrics)
The Bluest Rose (music, lyrics)