About Debi Yazbeck

Debi is from Frisco, Texas. She’s an award-winning screenwriter with Austin Film Festival, Roadmap Writers, Page Awards, Final Draft Big Break, Nicholl, Screencraft, ISA Fast Track, BlueCat, Scriptapalooza and more. She’s a Board Member of Stowe Story Labs and an alum of The Tracking Board’s Launch Pad and of The Academy of Filmwriting. Debi writes TV and features based in the South. Her understanding of and love for the outdoors provides a backdrop to all her scripts, which are primarily female-driven. Death and the subsequent unhealthy reconciliations that affect her protagonists’ wants and needs are explored as the characters’ goals supersede moral decisions.

Debi has produced two of the shorts she has written. She directed the TV sitcom pilot SUNFLOWER CARE written by Della Greenawalt and produced by Diana Richardson.

PHILOSOPHY

When we are swept up in entertainment, all troubles, all thoughts fall away -- if only temporarily. We live whatever world we are viewing, reading, hearing. It's a respite.

UNIQUENESS

Nobody is truly unique. But nobody is a clone of another either. Each individual is just that -- an individual with only small degrees of differences from other individuals.