SELECT SCREEN CREDITS
THE F WORD | Writer & Creator
Half hour comedy, commissioned by UKTV, in development
FOMO BABY | Writer & Creator
Half hour musical comedy, treatment commissioned by FilmNation
FINDING FACETIME | Writer & Co-Producer
YouTube musical, produced by Touchstone Theatre
SELECT THEATRE CREDITS
WILD CHILD | Writer
Stage musical, commissioned by The Breathe Project
LITTLE SAUSAGE | Writer & Co-Producer
Verbatim musical, produced at the Other Palace, Drayton Arms Theatre, The Gallery
BIG SISTER | Writer & Producer
Solo comedy, produced at Vancouver Cultch Theatre, Vancouver Fringe Festival, Old
Red Lion Theatre
CARRY ON | Writer & Co-Producer
Musical, commissioned by Awkward Stage Productions
SYLVIA’S HOTEL | Writer
Musical, commissioned by Kol Halev Performance Society
PRODUCING & ASSISTING
CO-FOUNDER, SCRIPT CONSULTANT & PRODUCER | Chalk Dramaturgy
Log submissions, provide script support, organize events, update the budget
ARTS & CULTURE PROGRAMMER | JW3 London
Planned and curated seasons of theatre, panels, films, and comedy
WRITER’S ASSISTANT | Claire Wilson
Organized schedule, events, and supported as needed
SCRIPTED DEVELOPMENT MENTORSHIP | Omnifilm Entertainment
Provided coverage on submissions, researched shows, supported the head of scripted development
STORY EDITING INTERN | Papery Films
Attended meetings, transcribed footage
PRODUCTION ASSISTANT | Various
Various PA duties, supported the locations manager as needed
EDUCATION
PACIFIC SCREENWRITING PROGRAM
Scripted Series Lab Cohort, 2025
GOLDSMITHS, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON
Masters in Dramaturgy & Writing for Performance, 2019
UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA
Bachelor of Fine Arts in Creative Writing, 2015
AWARDS
Comedy 50:50 / UKTV Female Comedy Initiative Winner, THE F WORD (2021)
Outstanding Original Script Nomination, Jessie Awards, BIG SISTER (2020)
Cultchivating the Fringe Winner, BIG SISTER (2018)
Pick of the Fringe, CARRY ON (2016)
YouTube Musical Competition, Touchstone Theatre, FINDING FACE TIME (2015)
Bill Millerd Award in Theatre (2014)
Act NOW! National Playwriting Competition, FALLEN HEADS (2010)
Deborah is a Canadian writer and dramaturg. She has worked in a variety of contexts, from festivals to large theatres to film. On screen, Deborah was commissioned to write an original pilot for UKTV through the female writers initiative with Comedy 50:50. On stage, Deborah is currently in development on a musical called The Breathe Project. She also wrote Big Sister, a one-woman show about her sister’s 75lb weight loss. This show won the Cultchivating the Fringe Award and was nominated for Outstanding Original Script at the 2020 Jessie Richardson Awards. She wrote the book for the sold-out production Sylvia’s Hotel, and her musical Carry On was awarded Pick of the Fringe in 2016. Additional writing credits include Little Sausage (The Other Palace), BUSK (Upstart Theatre), and Finding FaceTime (Touchstone Theatre).
As a dramaturg, she has worked with dozens of writers, comedians, and companies. Most recently, she co-founded Chalk Musical Theatre Dramaturgy, a script consultancy specifically for new musicals and was a Bill Millerd Artist Fund recipient for comedy dramaturgy. Past production dramaturgy credits include Dark Sisters (Vancouver Opera), Sweeney Todd (Vancouver Opera) and Saint Joan (Arts Club Theatre Company).
Deborah won an Early Career Dramaturg Travel Grant to attend the Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas conference in New York in 2015. She completed a dramaturgy internship at the Arts Club Theatre Company and a scripted development mentorship at Omnifilm Entertainment. She has a BFA in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia and a Masters of Writing for Performance and Dramaturgy at Goldsmiths, University of London.
Deborah was selected as one of six participants in the 2025 Pacific Screenwriting Program’s Scripted Series Lab where she developed an original series concept for television.
She is from Vancouver, BC, a city that gave her a deep love of the ocean and unrealistic expectations about the affordability of sushi. When she isn’t writing, she’s eating cheap vegan food, drinking expensive coffee, or walking by the nearest body of water.
