Debra’s directing includes ~ The Most Mediocre Story Ever Told- Best Solo Play ~ LA Weekly Awards and United Solo Festival Best Script winner Hal Ackerman’s solo play Prick. Debra won the Best Director NoHo Fringe Fest Award of the solo play Abducted in the Heartland. She has directed several plays featured in the Debra is a recipient of the Rainbow Award for her work with bringing theatre to forgotten communities by the Los Angeles Woman’s Theatre Festival and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Debra created the hit play Cock Tales, celebrating a 10-month run in Hollywood. She directed Eve Ensler’s play Necessary Targets documenting women in a Bosnian refugee camp. The talented international cast raised funds for FEMINA, the first feministic magazine in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Debra served as the Artistic Director of SAIPRO, whose mission is “Serving Artists in Process.” Debra produced and directed the critically acclaimed plays I’m Dop3 with burn survivor Afia Fields, and Rochelle Duffy’s Prison Is Where I Learned To Fly.