Debra has designed for many stage productions both regionally and internationally including the world premiere operas, Marco Polo, composed by Tan Dun and directed by Martha Clarke commissioned by the Edinburgh Festival, produced by the Münchener Biennale, the Munich State Opera, the Hong Kong Festival, New York City Opera and Music Theater Group; and The Hindenburg, composed by Steve Reich and directed by Roman Paska for a tour of European opera houses. Regionally, her work includes This Beautiful City for the Humana Festival at the Actors Theater of Louisville, Lost Boys of the Sudan for the Minneapolis Children’s Theater, I Just Stopped By to See the Man, for Milwaukee Rep, Hambone for which she received a Helen Hayes nomination, Privates on Parade, The Shape of Things and Far Away, A Number, Caroline or Change, Fat Pig, Russian National Postal Service, This Beautiful City, Road to Mecca, Blackbird, Moonlight, Adding Machine: the Musical, Reasons to Be Pretty--all for Studio Theatre in Washington DC; Rough Crossing and the musical, Famous Orpheus for Geva Theatre; Marisol by José Rivera for Hartford Stage and the New York Shakespeare Festival; The Illusion, The Baltimore Waltz, Happy Days and My Children, My Africa for Portland Stage; Pelléas and Mélisande for Skylight Opera; the New York premiere of Angels in America, Pt 1 for Juilliard; Game of Love and Chance for the Berkshire Theatre Festival; Broken Glass for the Philadelphia Theatre Company, for which she received a Barrymore Award nomination; and Moon for the Misbegotten, directed by Lloyd Richards at Yale Rep with Frances McDormand and David Strathairn. She is also worked on several workshop productions with the Actors Studio in New York including Salomé and Oedipus directed by Estelle Parsons and Al Pacino with the actors, Dianne Wiest, Marissa Tomei and Al Pacino among others. Debra was the recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts Design Grant and is a graduate of the Yale School of Drama.Specialties: theater design, management, theater program, theater set design, studio, designer, stage design, bühnebilder