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Deborah Goemans
President
Rose & Amaranth Productions LLC
My work as a writer, playwright, scriptwriter, podcaster, and storyteller begins with the understanding that we are each the sacred meeting place of the past and the future, and our actions create the world for those who come next.
I seek to create humorous, bawdy, wistful, heartbreaking, and inspiring stories, drawn from a life lived on three continents and aging with love, loss, and the shiver of an ancient family curse.
About
Rose & Amaranth Productions LLC
The mission of R&A Productions is to use a variety of media to express the light and dark aspects of life. My full length play, entitled OUR BELOVED IAGO, about the psychological landmines of war during peacetime, has been made possible by a NASCA grant and the Homer Center for the Arts.
Professional Endorsement for the script:
"POWERFUL."
David Swanson
Nobel Peace Prize Nominee; US Peace Prize Recipient, and Executive Director World Beyond War
AND ... Deborah Goemans' podcast on her YouTube Channel, Sex with Picasso: A Cozy Memoir of Madness, is currently in development and will be highlighting her journey and challenges as an older artist breaking through into show-biz in all its forms.
"Deborah is a sparky, generous, and hilarious performer, on top of being a first-rate writer. Her work is insightful and evocative: she was definitely a highlight of our night!" --Georgia Clark, Producer, Generation Women
Current Works in
Development:
A weekly podcast highlighting my challenges and successes as an older artist
A soldier returns from war to his beloved wife and an identity personality disorder that wants to kill them both
Other Works in Development
See something that interests you? Drop me a line!
Gimme Hope
GIMME HOPE is a TV drama series that weaves true worldwide historical events with a gritty and entertaining fictional story set in Syracuse, New York. Two South African grandmothers buy a derelict church, which they hope to fix up and use as a place of reconciliation for their struggling community. Their plans are complicated by a ghost, an African-American musician, who sold the church to the two women and then committed suicide, and now finds himself spending his afterlife in the church helping others confront their own ghosts of the past.
While Gimme Hope explores historical events and doesn’t hold back on the often gory truth of those events, it’s done in a way that engages the viewer. The grandmothers are warm, joyous characters with a deep and conflicted friendship and their own dirty little secrets they must confront.
The Sexual Remedies
DRAMA TV SERIES: Set in the nineteen-twenties, an Irish sexual healer and her twenty-one-year-old granddaughter travel to the United States to open up a healing shop and find love.
This vibrant and joyful series is about the adventures and complications of love in all its various forms. Drawing from sexual mythology as well as modern day sexual healing methods, each episode begins with Granny helping a patient or a couple heal. Her healing is explicit but not in a degrading way: the overall feeling is cozy and light, rather than hardcore.
SNOWED INN
An edgy comedy Christmas feature about a homeless couple trying to make their way from upstate New York to California. They don’t get far before their decrepit car gets stuck in a snowbank off the beaten track. They find a fully-furnished deserted house and decide to take shelter. As others get stranded by the snowstorm, they, too, arrive at the house. Soon, our intrepid couple find themselves running an inn and getting embroiled in a jewel theft involving a one-legged man and his evil stepson.
The Amaranth Bloom
.DRAMA This screenplay is based on my book of the same name. It is a universal story about the choices we make when our government is attempting to tell us how to live our lives. Set during apartheid South Africa, this story is as relevant today as it was then, and is relevant to the current world order as well, as demonstrated by multiple governments worldwide.
""I wholeheartedly endorse this powerful and timely story about an Indigenous Cape Town traditional healer who draws on her cultural beliefs and folklore to defend her family and ancestral farm against the might of the apartheid state. Set against the backdrop of apartheid South Africa, this dramatic narrative resonates profoundly with today's world, exploring the universal question: What do we do when the government tries to take away our land and freedom? This story speaks not only to the past but to ongoing struggles for justice and autonomy, making it as relevant now as ever."
Kyle Shepherd--multiple award winning pianist and film composer