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Specialties
Fun, creative, nurturing environment ~ learn and practice acting and playwriting. Debra has decades of experience as a teacher, director, and performer.
History
Established in 1997.
Along with being Adjunct Facutly at USC (since 2002) and AADA (since 1997) Debra thoroughly enjoys teaching her private acting classes. We are more like an acting company, and several creative projects have come from Debra De Liso’s Theatre Workshops.
Meet the Business Owner
Debra D.
Business Owner
Debra De Liso ~ theatre and dance artist with over thirty years of critically acclaimed work as an actor, director, choreographer, dancer and writer. In 2014 Debra was honored with the Rainbow Award by the L.A. Women’s Theatre Festival, for her years of bringing theatre to multi-cultural and diverse communities. She has guided the writing and directed over 300 One-Person Shows at USC, AADA, and professionally, several of her plays going onto New York and Europe. Debra received a three year California Arts Council Grant to teach acting and playwriting at a medium security prison. She has written three of her own solo pieces, one about her disabled but inspirational mother, The Nurse June Show, and one about dance artist Isadora Duncan, Isadora’s Dream. Jay Sefton’s original solo play The Most Mediocre Story Never Told, dramaturged and directed by Debra won Best Solo Play 2008 by L.A. Weekly and went onto NYC International Fringe Festival. Debra also specializes in teaching Improv.