Deborah Hedwall has been acting, teaching and directing in New York and Los Angeles for over 25 years. She received her professional acting training with Sanford Meisner and Uta Hagen. Selected On and Off Broadway, The Heidi Chronicles, Equus, Sight Unseen at Manhattan Theater Club for which she received an OBIE award and a Drama Desk Nomination for Outstanding Performance, Savage in Limbo at New York Stage and Film, Extremities at the Westside Arts Theater, Horton Foote’s Blind Date at Ensemble Studio Theater, Why We Have A Body at The Women’s Project, directed by Evan Yionoulis, Amulets Against The Dragon Forces at Circle Rep, Fall To Earth at 59 East 59, directed by Joe Brancato, All My Fathers at La Mamma directed by Evan Yionoulis, and GNIT by Will Eno, directed by Oliver Butler at TFANA.
Regionally she has worked at The Actor’s Theater of Louisville, The Eugene O’Neill Theater Conference, The Arena Stage, The New Play Festival at Sundance, The Long Wharf Theater, Yale Repertory, and Baltimore Center Stage where she appeared in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf directed by Ethan McSweeny, Bay Street Theater in Sag Harbor in Men's Lives (directed by Harris Yulin), Barrington Stage in Breaking the Code (directed by Joe Calarco), Hartford Stage in Christopher Shinn's play An Opening in Time (directed by Oliver Butler), Outside Mullingar at BTF, directed by Karen Allen.
Television credits include Netflix's Jessica Jones, Homeland, HBO's Barry Levinson's You Don't Know Jack with Al Pacino, The West Wing, Law & Order, The Big C, Delocated, two seasons Deborah played the mother in the Emmy Award winning series I’ll Fly Away , Ina Muldoon on the Edward Burns series Public Morals, Numerous Law and Orders, Bull, Mary Star in the Apple TV series Ray James {War of The Worlds}, HBO series Mare of Easton. Selected Film, Vera Farmiga’s Higher Ground, What Is Life Worth, After Yang by Kogonada, Shadrach, and House of Teeth, directed by Susanna Styron.
Deborah has maintained her acting studio dh&co in NYC for 30 years.
““Ms. Hedwall is simply thrilling...In a play in which everyone has made bad bargains with life and art, she is asked to embody the pure direct human connection, the unclouded vision...this Ms. Hedwall achieves with a nakedness of spirit so incandescent that she adds a ray of hope to the otherwise angry brush strokes that dominate the canvas of “SIGHT UNSEEN””