DEB LEAMY is primarily a theatre artist who made NYC her home for more than 20 years and now serves on faculty in academia-presently at the University of Nevada, Reno. (UNR) On Broadway, she has performed in Sweet Smell of Success with John Lithgow, originated the role of Margaret in Never Gonna Dance, and was an original cast member of the Tony-winning musical Fosse where she had the rare privilege of learning this iconic choreography from none other than Gwen Verdon. She has performed nationally/internationally in the musicals Chicago, Phantom of the Opera, and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and has also performed on renowned stages such as Carnegie Hall and Radio City Musical Hall, the latter as part of the cast of the Christmas Spectacular with the Radio City Rockettes.

Deb has performed Internationally at the Macao International Music Festival and at numerous reputable theatres across the U.S. including Paper Mill Playhouse, St. Louis Muny, North Shore Music Theatre, Ogunquit Playhouse, Houston Grand Opera, Virginia Opera, Arkansas Rep, and Cape Fear Regional Theatre. Appearing in many TV commercials, she has also had the good fortune of appearing on the Tony Awards twice (with the casts of Fosse & Sweet Smell of Success), and on The Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade with Fosse.

For the past several years she has served as director and/or choreographer for numerous musicals, cabarets, and benefits such as Fugitive Songs, A Chorus Line, 42nd Street, Pageant the Musical, Damn Yankees, Grease, Pippin, In The Heights, My Way, Roar of the Greasepaint, Smell of the Crowd, Shrek, Legally Blonde, Beast Mode Champion; and founded the West Coast (SF) version of the illustrious NYC AIDS benefit, Broadway Bares, raising hundreds of thousands of dollars for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS. She recently attained her MFA from The Peck School of the Arts at UWM-Milwaukee.

Deb is a proud member of the Actors' Equity Association.