Deborah’s love of theater began when she watched her grandmother perform as a young woman in a Chicago troupe in the early 1920s. Deb has performed and engaged in backstage work through high school, college, and her local communities. Over the past two years, she returned to college to study costuming for actors and dancers at Middle Tennessee State University. Her other hobbies have included extensive travel across the U.S., machine embroidery, and quilting.