Deborah Goffe (Artistic Director, Scapegoat Garden) is a performer, choreographer, dance educator and video artist.  She earned her BFA in Modern Dance from the University of the Arts and an MFA in Dance Performance and Choreography from California Institute of the Arts.  Upon her return to Connecticut in 2002, the Hartford-native founded Scapegoat Garden, for which she currently serves as Artistic Director.  Scapegoat Garden has become the vehicle through which she cultivates a collaborative, interdisciplinary environment for the creation of new work and artistic innovation.  She is a recipient of Artist's Fellowship Grants from the Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism as well as from the Greater Hartford Arts Council for her choreographic work.

Her choreography has been commissioned by Full Force Dance Theatre and educational institutions, including Trinity College.  She has served as co-founder and director of Drink to This!, an intergenerational ensemble of performers, designers, writers and visual artists who create multimedia, collaborative works.  Deborah has performed as a member of Velvet Lemons under the direction of Karen Bacon and in works by Ruth Barnes, Rebecca Lazier, Milton Myers and Randé Dorn.  For several years, beginning in 1997, she performed with the Judy Dworin Performance Ensemble (JDPE) and continues to serve as a teaching artist at Parkville Community School through JDPE's, Moving Matters Residency.  Since 2000, Deborah's interdisciplinary focus has blossomed into a passion for dance video.  She has nurtured this passion by developing video works, and sound designs, for Scapegoat Garden, JDPE, Figments Dance Ensemble and the Greater Hartford Arts Council.  

Deborah has taught dance and related courses in a number of institutions including Belmont High School in Los Angeles, California Institute of the Arts, CREC's Center for Creative Youth, Hartford Conservatory, University of Hartford/Hartt School/Community Division and Connecticut Conservatory.  She is currently on the faculty at Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts and Trinity College.