Debs is a narrative director & screenwriter in film & TV.

She recently lead the critically celebrated HALO s2 (101/102) for Amblin/Showtime/Paramount+. Her high end directing work marries complex action, stunts and VFX  with sensitive and visceral character work. Her TV credits include LucasFilm's WILLOW, Bad Wolf's DISCOVERY OF WITCHES, and Imaginarium's HALF BAD: THE BASTARD SON & THE DEVIL HIMSELF - alongside prestige feminist period dramas HARLOTS and DOMINA. 

Debs got her start directing with the magical realist family-friendly theatrical feature AFRICA UNITED (Pathé/BBC Films) and segued from there to the action-heavy SKY/CINEMAX HBO headliner STRIKE BACK - where she was the first female director in 6 seasons.

Her work has played to festival acclaim globally, and in 2018 she was invited by JJ Abrams and Kathy Kennedy to document the making of STAR WARS EPISODE IX. The resulting feature THE SKYWALKER LEGACY released to lovely reports during lockdown, March 2020 - including an honorary mention alongside TENET, MANK and PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN on Slash Film's best of 2020 list.

Debs' work has world premiered Toronto International Film Festival and red carpet gala'd in London Film Festival, receiving standing ovations at both. She received a'Best Debut Director' British Independent Film Awards nomination and was named a BAFTA ‘Brit to Watch’.

Debs collaborated with BAFTA and award-winning producer Ivana MacKinnon to create ELEVATE - an initiative to facilitate diverse hiring and create supportive peer networks in high end TV in the UK, which is now in its fifth cohort. The scheme is recognised as having had a significant impact on high end UK hiring practices.

She has served on juries for the BAFTA Awards, Royal Television Society, Women In Film & TV and the DGA. Debs holds a Masters in Literature from Cambridge University and a diploma in Meisner technique from the Cuba Film & Television School.

Debs is a member of BAFTA, the DGA and Directors UK. Her manager is Geoff Shaevitz at Entertainment 360, and she is represented by Ellen Jones & Wilhelmina Ross at CAA in the states, and Robert Taylor and Tom Shepherd at the Artists Partnership in London. Her legal rep is David Jelenko at LICHTER, GROSSMAN, NICHOLS, FELDMAN, ROGAL, SHIKORA & CLARK

Debs travels a lot for work and play (she was born in Taiwan and raised between Yorkshire, Rwanda, Singapore and India). Her current base is in London.