Debbie Allen is an award-winning film and TV director, producer, actress, dancer, and choreographer with more than 40 years of experience in the entertainment industry. Allen has directed several TV and feature films: including Polly, Polly: Comin’ Home, Stompin’ At The Savoy, Out of Sync, and Christmas on the Square. Allen is also an accomplished television director with several credits under her belt including Fame, A Different World, Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Everybody Hates Chris, Insecure, Scandal, and Grey’s Anatomy.
Debbie Allen
Houston, Texas
Films
Christmas on the Square
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(2020)
An embittered scrooge of a woman plans to sell her small town, regardless of the consequences to the people who live there. However, a kindhearted angel arrives and shows her what would happen before she mends her ways and redeems herself.
Out of Sync
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(1995)
A Los Angeles DJ (LL Cool J in his first starring role) in debt to bookies falls for the girlfriend of a drug dealer that he is watching for the police.
Stompin' At The Savoy
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(1992)
Four young Black women try to achieve their dreams of success in 1930s Harlem.
Polly: Comin' Home
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(1990)
Broadway-style songs are used to tell this interesting story of an ingenious orphan who gets involved in matchmaking and strives for interracial understanding in 1956 Alabama.
Polly
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(1989)
Set in the 1950s, a joyful orphan comes to live with her wealthy aunt in Alabama and inspires the transformation of a stodgy town and its residents. Based on the 1960 Disney film Pollyanna.
