Alley Theatre
Deborah Lackey, CFRE has a rich and diverse work experience in various leadership roles within the development and advancement sector. Deborah began their career as the Executive Director Foundation at Lone Star Community College from 2001 to 2006. Deborah then served as the Development Director at Reasoning Mind from 2006 to 2007. Deborah went on to become the Vice President of Advancement at the Houston Zoo from 2007 to 2011. Deborah also held multiple roles at Memorial Hermann Foundation, including Associate Vice President from 2011 to 2017 and Senior Development Director from 2011 to 2015. From 2017 to 2018, Deborah served as the Chief Advancement Officer at Contemporary Arts Museum Houston. Currently, they are the Chief Development Officer at Alley Theatre, a position they have held since 2019.
Deborah Lackey, CFRE, began their education at Sacred Heart of Mary High School from 1965 to 1969. Following that, from 1969 to 1973, they attended Marquette University where they earned their Bachelor of Arts degree in English.
Alley Theatre
The Alley was founded over 70 years ago as Houston’s theatre company. It exists to provide audiences with the highest quality theatre, offering a wide variety of work including new plays, classics, the re-discovered and the rarely-performed, and new musical theatre, with an emphasis on new American works – to provide the inspirational and the provocative – to make our audiences think, feel, dream, and be entertained. The Alley Theatre is one of the few American Theatre companies that supports a company of actors, designers, artisans and craftspeople throughout the year. Our productions are built and rehearsed in the Alley Theatre Center for Theatre Production – a 75,000-square-foot facility adjacent to the theatres themselves – that is state-of-the-art and one of the most complete and largest facilities of its kind anywhere. The mission of the Alley Theatre, under the direction of Artistic Director Rob Melrose and Managing Director Dean Gladden, is to deepen the understanding of ourselves, one another, and the world we share by uniting theatre artists and audiences to experience the power of stories that illuminate the breadth and complexities of the human condition.