Deborah's background includes accounting, casting direction, and styling, and ten years as the production coordinator and sales representative for Richard Foster Photography Ltd. Her leadership was early evidenced by her participation as a keynote speaker at a national conference of artists representatives in New York sponsored by the Creative Black Book.When Richard entered into film production, Deborah took on the responsibilities of executive producer and oversaw every detail of their television commercial productions. She has the distinctive ability to produce finished product with the highest production value and her accounting background has taught her how to squeeze the most out of every production dollar and produce efficiently and on time. Her clients include McDonald's, Kelloggs, Royal Crown Cola, Stouffer Hotels, Corona Beer, Pizza Hut, Uncle Bens, Bell Telephone Systems, Blue Cross/Blue Shield, Mazzios, Village Inn/Bakers Square, and Anheuser Busch. Deborah was a member of Women in Film and the Association of Independent Commercial Producers. Together with Richard they won over seventy major national awards.With her writing partner, Richard, she has developed and written four feature films, and an anthology dramatic television series with thirteen episodes completed and thirteen others in development. She has also produced the pilot of a children's series, The Scientific Adventures Of Doctor Theory.So This Is Christmas is the first of their many projects slated to be produced. It has been chosen first because of its efficient budget structure, its capitalization of the teen market, and the "legs" inherent in any Christmas film both in theatrical release and on television and in video markets year after year.