Debbie is an award-winning director with a diverse portfolio spanning documentary films, drama, and commercials. She earned her master’s degree from the Royal College of Art, where she studied MA Communication Art & Design. She is now an Associate Lecturer there, teaching MA Information Experience Design & MA Visual Communication, as well as at UAL London College of Communication, where she teaches BA Interaction Design Arts.

In creative education, her teaching practice focuses on storytelling, community engagement, designing for social good, filmmaking and documentary, research processes, dialogic practice, and narrative design methodologies.

Debbie was named an outstanding new talent to watch by Shots magazine, featured in Campaign magazine's picks of the week, and won several awards for her COI anti-knife crime campaign It Doesn’t Have to Happen, which consists of two short dramas based on real testimonies. She directed the campaign and led the development of the stories through conversations with young men in prisons across the country.

Her acclaimed documentary Ordinary Magic, with music composed by Michael Nyman, has been screened at the ICA, Rencontres Internationales, the Pompidou Centre, and numerous festivals worldwide.

Debbie has directed several high-profile commercial and social issue campaigns for brands and organizations such as Google, Microsoft, YouTube, COI, Sky Arts, Samaritans, Samsung, BBC, Channel 4, TATE, Mind, Citizens UK, and Time to Change. She also works as a storytelling consultant on creative projects. As a director, Debbie oversees narrative and storytelling development and conducts extensive interviews to inform the narratives featured in the campaigns.

Her award-winning debut short drama Three Sacks Full of Hats, starring Warren Brown, Tom Meeten, David Sterne, and Alison Steadman, has been screened at festivals worldwide. She discussed the research involved in making the film during an interview on Sky News. A co-production of Century Films and Prodigal, she is now developing new documentary and scripted projects.