Deborah Romare

Deborah began her career as a child actress in Minneapolis, Minnesota at The Guthrie Theater in such stage productions as A Christmas Carol and The Taming of the Shrew. As a teenager, Deborah moved with her family to Los Angeles and immediately began working as an actress in feature films and television: Straight Time with Dustin Hoffman, Lepke with Tony Curtis and in various MOWs including Kate Bliss and the Ticker Tape Kid and the television series Happy Days. She then moved behind the camera into film editorial and was fortunate to work with such directors as Francis Ford Coppola, Caleb Deschanel and Wim Wenders while at Hollywood's Zoetrope Studios. Deborah worked closely with Mr. Coppola and his son, Gio in the first video film-to-tape editing system on Apocalypse Now, One from the Heart, The Escape Artist and Hammett. Deborah was a film editor on the Emmy Award-winning television series China Beach, co-editing the series finale. Deborah met Blake Edwards while working in editorial on feature films such as Victor, Victoria, The Man Who Loved Women, and Micki and Maude. Blake mentored Deborah as a screenwriter and her first feature screenplay was optioned by Columbia Pictures. She continued honing her craft in writing then directed her first feature film at the age of 30. As a screenwriter, Deborah wrote and developed feature film scripts for New Star Entertainment, MGM Studios, Viacom, Universal and 20th Century Fox Studios. Deborah began her producing career with the Emmy Award-winning Anne Frank: The Whole Story for ABC television and at Disney and Warner Bros. where she post produced numerous movie-of-the-week and pilot productions. Deborah co-wrote and co-directed Patients, a television sitcom pilot with her writer/producer partner Vincent J. Wiley which led to them forming their production company, 19th Day Pictures. Deborah co-wrote the feature animated screenplay, Vincent the Artist which will be animated in India. The anticipated release date of the animated feature film will be fall of 2022. They created a 4-minute multi-award-winning animated short that can be viewed online. Their first in a series of three children's picture books is available online, at Amazon and in book stores worldwide. Deborah also manages screenwriters through her management arm at 19th Day Management.