Debbie received her training from William and Sheila Reilly, Lupe Serrano and David Adams. She was a dance scholarship winner at Interlochen National Music Camp and a UWM scholarship dance major. Debbie has been teaching for over 25 years.

Her teaching experience includes Dance Art Academy, Alberta Ballet School, workshops and master classes in Western Ca-nada, The William Reilly Academy of Ballet and the Young Dance Academy.

Her professional career includes Milwaukee Ballet, Mid-American Dance Theatre and jazz company "Kompany" in Canada. She has choreographed and appeared in numberous musicals, operettas, dinner theater and industrial shows throughtout the Midwest and Canada.

Her students continue to win top awards at Regional and National Competitions and most recently at the Access Broadway Competition.