Education
MA/Annenberg Fellow, University of Southern California (USC); BA, University of Minnesota
About Deborah Starr Seibel
Deborah Starr Seibel is a multiple award-winning journalist and screenwriter. For the past eight years, she has been an instructor at University of Southern California’s School of Cinematic Arts in the John Wells Division of Writing for Film & Television. In addition, she serves as a mentor for Stephens College’s MFA in Screenwriting program. In prime-time television, Starr Seibel recently sold two pilots to CBS and is credited with four years on staff. During those years, she wrote six episodes for the final season of NBC’s Sisters and spent three additional years on the staff of Promised Land, the spin-off to CBS’s Touched by An Angel. She has also written episodes for Mysterious Ways and 21 Jump Street.
As a television reporter, Starr Seibel won a George Foster Peabody award for investigative journalism, two Emmy Awards, and first place from the Associated Press for one of her documentaries. As a print journalist, she has written for the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, Parade and USA Today. In addition, she is a long-time national correspondent for TV Guide.
In 2010 she was awarded a University of Southern California Annenberg Fellowship to receive her master’s degree in Specialized Journalism (The Arts).