The nonprofit theater is dedicated to independent, classic, foreign, and documentary films, and has hosted film luminaries from Jane Fonda and Peter Bogdanovich to the late Robert Altman and Gene Wilder.

In 2004, Deborah and her husband restored and reopened the Avon Theatre Film Center, a 1939 landmark that is now a beacon of exhibition for the community. When she’s not writing, Deborah is busy bringing an amazing slate of sophisticated movies to audiences in Samford, CT. A move to Paris in 1992 sparked her transition to a literary career, beginning at Canal+ before she returned to New York and began work at Miramax.

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Kirkus Reviews calls it “An impressively original, immediately engaging and thoroughly entertaining novel by an author with a distinctive narrative storytelling style.”ĭeborah was a film and television actor for 10 years, with a long-running role on ALL MY CHILDREN, followed by appearances on such shows as ST. Ford,” a literary page-turner about an affluent New England woman whose privilege is upended by the appearance of a man from her past, recently released to critical acclaim. Deborah Goodrich Royce has enjoyed an unusual career path - from soap-opera screen actress to Miramax story editor to arthouse-theater owner and, now, to novelist.

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