As a world-class performance storyteller and one of the UK’s leading performers in this field, Debs has made work for venues such as Shakespeare’s Globe, the Royal Opera House, the Southbank Centre, the RSC, the NHS, Hay Festival, Peace Child International, and the BBC. A fearlessly imaginative story artist, she has spent the last 20 years creating a vivid body of critically admired work that explores the human condition through storytelling and theatre. Her creations are funny, deeply felt, often cathartic, and connect with a wide range of audiences and participants worldwide.

Her genre-defying collaborations with renowned director John Wright (Peter Brook Award winner and founder of Told by an Idiot) are widely regarded as having helped re-define contemporary storytelling in the UK. A Shakespeare specialist, with over 15 years of professional association with Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, Debs’ highly celebrated trilogy of solo adaptations of Shakespeare’s tragedies has toured to international acclaim since 2014, and her storytelling has transformed the work of Shakespeare’s Globe Education.

Debs is also a highly skilled and experienced trainer and facilitator, working internationally alongside companies such as Shakespeare’s Globe, the Southbank Centre, Bright Torches, the Drive Project, Bravo 22, Middlesex University, BestTellers Denmark, Museum of Legends Ljungby Sweden, and many others. Debs also lectures and directs theatre at Leeds Conservatoire.