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I help people tell their story to the world!

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Debra as a Director

  • Debra has guided the writing, directed and filmed over 700 original One-Person Shows at USC, AADA, and professionally. Several of her plays have gone onto New York, the U.K. and Europe.


  • Received a three year California Arts Council Grant to teach acting and playwriting at a medium security prison.


  • Written and performed three of her own solo pieces, The Nurse June Show, about her disabled but inspirational mother, and playing Isadora Duncan in her Isadora’s Dream, and Beautiful, Terrifying, Love dealing with mental illness in families.


  • Dramaturged and directed The Most Mediocre Story Never Told won Best Solo Play L.A. Weekly, and went onto NYC International Fringe Festival.


  • Dramaturged and directed Prick- won Best Script United Solo Festival.


  • Dramaturged and directed Cock Tales an evening of wickedly original male monologues, from some of L.A.’s finest playwrights, which ran for ten months in Hollywood.


  • Debra's work has been featured in articles including the LA Weekly, Pasadena Weekly, and Backstage and Femme Fatales Magazines.


  • Directed several episodes of the comedy show The Tyrants in Therapy starring Abbe Kanter and Michael Jaye, and helmed other comedy webisodes including Eve and Adam and David and the Psychiatrist.


  • Taught Directing Actors to film students at LA Film School.

  • ~Honored with the RAINBOW AWARD by the L.A. Women’s Theatre Festival, for her decades of developing and directing theatre for multi-cultural and diverse communities.

PHYSIOTHERAPIST

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MANAGER

Christine Johanson

PHOTOGRAPHER

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PHYSIOTHERAPIST

Joana Smith

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Debra as an Actress

  • Debra has guided the writing, directed and filmed over 700 original One-Person Shows at USC, AADA, and professionally. Several of her plays have gone onto New York, the U.K. and Europe.


  • Critically acclaimed theatre and film actor.


  • Performed in over 100 theatrical productions in Los Angeles and Edinburgh Scotland.


  • Enjoyed artistic collaborations with James Cromwell, Donald Freed, Amy Holden Jones, Stephen Gyllenhaal, Jane Anderson, and Daniel Attias.


  • Gamers know her as the voice of Raszagal and the Valkyrie Pilot on Star Craft.


  • The Los Angeles Women’s Theatre Festival awarded her the Rainbow Award 2014 for decades of creating her theatre of compassion.


  • 2016 voicing three new animation projects, in pre-production for an indie movie playing the lead role.

Debra as a Teacher

“I believe the highest calling of an actor is the practice of compassion, only then we can truly step into the shoes of those whose stories we share.” Debra De Liso

Debra De Liso loves sharing the JOY of acting. She has been a devoted theatre teacher at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts for since 1987 and at USC since 2002. She also teaches her own private classes where her students learn Debra’s philosophy of experiential learning through “theatre of compassion.” She is a critically acclaimed actor, director, choreographer, playwright, with over 700 original solo plays under her dramaturgy and direction.

Debra’s playwriting workshops have transformed lives in prisons, for artists with disabilities, and girls with Turner Syndrome. Debra won the 2014 Rainbow Award from the LA Women’s Theatre Festival for her decades of work creating theatre in multi-cultural and diverse communities.

ABOUT ME

I help people tell their story to the world!

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35

Years of Experience

900

Our projects

700

Plays Directed

800

Students

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$ 29 /month

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$ 40 /month

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$ 60 /month

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Mariela Castillo,

ArtisT & Entrepreneur

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Michale J. Gonzales,

Actors & Pianist

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Barbara Saba,

Actriz

“I believe the highest calling of an actor is the practice of compassion, only then we can truly step into the shoes of those whose stories we share.

- Debra De Liso