Debra has guided the writing and directed over 250 One-Person Shows at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, USC, and in professional theatres.  She thoroughly enjoys the challenging and personal work of taking actors through the autobiographical writing process into performance.  She has written two of her own solo performance pieces, one about her disabled but inspirational mother, one about the visionary dance artist Isadora Duncan. Debra also wrote a musical comedy about the making of a low budget horror film with the talented music arranger Jonathan Sacks.  She also conceived the play “Cock Tales,” an evening of wickedly original male monologues about sex from some of L.A.’s best playwrights which ran for 10 months in Hollywood.  The original solo play “The Most Mediocre Story Never Told,” dramaturged and directed by Debra is nominated for Best Solo Play 2008 by L.A. Weekly.

For television, Debra was delighted to direct Master yoga instructor Naader Shagagi’s four DVD’s on “Curative Yoga.”  Debra also directed several episodes of the comedy show “The Tyrants in Therapy” starring the husband and wife comedy team Abbe Kanter and Michael Jaye.  She is currently writing for her production company “Walk A Mile” Productions for future feature and short film shoots.

Debra received a three year California Arts Council Grant to teach acting and playwriting at a woman’s prison, which was some of the most difficult and rewarding work she has done to date.  In 2007 Debra directed a production of Eve Ensler’s play “Necessary Targets” about women in a refugee camp in Bosnia at AADA, the talented  international cast then performed a benefit show raising money for FEMINA, the first feministic magazine that presents women's activism in Bosnia and Herzegovina and creates a creative  space for women to express themselves.  In the Femme Fatales Magazine Debra is featured in an article about her Hollywood journey from early film work in low budget horror films to finding her niche in theatre, dance and helping others share their gifts.