Debra Dragotto
- Producer
- Casting Director
- Director
Debra Parker is a talented multi credited Hollywood based talent
executive, writer and film and television producer. She has worked for
and with top industry executives Mark Burnett, Michael Davies, Dick
Clark, Scott Sternberg, Mark Cronin, Mark DeCarlo, Mark Walberg, Jerry
Springer, Bob Eubanks and Wink Martindale. Her producing talents have
been well utilized in reality, game show and talk show series, pilots
and presentations since the early 1990s for top companies like Disney,
Fox Television, Warner Bros, Telemundo, Sony, New World, Lionsgate,
Rysher Entertainment, USA Network and Buena Vista. She is well known
and respected for her strong work ethic, her fairness, professionalism
and exemplary people and management skills. Ms. Parker holds a B.F.A.
in Drama from Hofstra University and studied acting and directing at
the renown Lee Strassberg Institute in New York City. She recently
obtained her M.F.A. in Screenwriting from UCLA's School of Televison,
Film & Theater and was honored with the Jack K. Sauter Award for
Artistic Merit. Her narrative short film "The Desire" was selected for
screening at the Women In Film International Film Festival. She
currently (September 2009) is developing sitcom, one hour drama and
reality concepts for television and has written several screenplays,
some which have been optioned. Ms. Parker studied Film Production at
New York's School of Visual Arts and Shakespeare at the acclaimed
London Academy of Dramatic Arts. She has been honored twice with highly
coveted Drama-Logue Awards for Stage Direction.