Deborah as an author has launched her most recent book – Local Habitation and Name: Caribbean Interpretation of Shakespeare. This book explores the seeing of Shakespeare through Caribbean lens as part of the dynamic post-colonial process of re-reading. Deborah creates ‘local’ Shakespeare with her Caribbean perspective, and with our voice, song, banter, and gesture –The Tempest, The Taming of the Shrew, and Twelfth Night will never be the same again.
Deborah Jean-Baptiste-Samuel is an attorney, poet, and orator. She holds a BA Hons in English Literature, Post-Graduate Diploma in International Relations, LLB Hons, and LEC. Deborah is a versatile creative powerhouse in dramatic performance and an orator par excellence.
