Deb (she/her) is a New York City–based puppeteer, costumer, educator, and theatre-maker.

Her recent puppet fabrication and performance work includes Saturday Night Live, A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, the documentary film George Saunders: On Story, Muppets Most Wanted, Auntie Panda, Avenue Q (Broadway), Little Shop of Horrors (Broadway), Heineken, Optimum On-Line, and many other projects.

Her original puppet works include Zwerge for the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, the award-winning Nosferatu for New York Fringe, and her family show, Animals in Winter. 

She serves as the costume shop supervisor for the Department of Theater at Brooklyn College, and is a lecturer for her course “Puppetry for the Theater.” For Brooklyn College she has designed puppets for She Kills Monsters and Camino Real.

Her published works include An Avant-Garde Approach to Comprehensive Puppet Performance Training for Puppetry International and Offstage Intimacy for ATHE’s Theatre Topics. She holds a BFA in acting and an MA in puppetry from the University of Connecticut, and an MFA in design from the University of Idaho.