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 and VFX facilities with detailed character work and TV credits include LucasFilm & Disney's WILLOW series, Bad Wolf's DISCOVERY OF WITCHES, and Netflix and Imaginarium's HALF BAD: THE BASTARD SON & THE DEVIL HIMSELF - alongside prestige ensemble 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 doc 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' first dramatic feature AFRICA UNITED had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival and European premiere as a red carpet London Film Festival gala, receiving standing ovations at both before releasing wide in the UK theatrically, and as an arthouse movie globally. The film earned Debs a 'Best Debut Director' British Independent Film Awards nomination and a BAFTA ‘Brit to Watch’.

Debs collaborated with BAFTA and longterm friend & producer Ivana MacKinnon in 2017 to create ELEVATE - an initiative to facilitate diverse hiring 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.

Her commercial work includes brand launch music videos for NIKE's The Girl Effect in Rwanda and Malawi, and for COCA COLA in Indonesia. 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. She is represented by Ellen Jones & Wilhelmina Ross at CAA in the states, Robert Taylor and Tom Shepherd at the Artists Partnership in London. Her manager is Geoff Shaevitz at Entertainment 360, and legal rep is David Jelenko at LICHTER, GROSSMAN, NICHOLS, FELDMAN, ROGAL, SHIKORA & CLARK

Debs splits her time between London, LA and Mexico