Deb Hiett

Deb Hiett moved to Los Angeles after years of living in New York City, where she performed in the band "Orson Welk" and such diverse Off-Broadway shows as "Henry V," "Crimes of the Heart," "Whisky Down," and the European tour of "West Side Story." Regional and L.A. theater credits include "Little Shop of Horrors," "All My Sons," "The Pajama Game," "All in the Timing," "Sweet Charity," "Power in the Blood," and "Holiday."She has appeared as an actress on TV's "Arrested Development," "Parks and Recreation," "The Office," "Desperate Housewives," "Prison Break," "Boston Legal," in many sketches on HBO's "Real Time with Bill Maher," and several web series.Deb co-wrote and co-starred in the short comedy film "A Bit of Counseling" (on FunnyOrDie) which won the Audience Choice Awards at the Palm Beach International Film Festival, the L.A. Comedy Shorts Film Festival, the Over the Fence Short Film Festival(Australia), and the Ojai Film Festival. Her original one-woman show, "Tattoo Expo and Accordion Show" premiered in L.A.'s Second City theater, and her sketch comedy show (co-written with Richard Kuhlman), "Deb and Rick on a Stick" ran for four weeks in the same venue.She graduated from New York University (Gallatin) with a B.A. in Writing and Philosophy. Her short stories, "Listening to Alarms" and "Coffee Shop" won NYU's Herbert Rubin Creative Writing Award and were published in The Gallatin Review. In reviewing her first original one-woman show "Words in a Certain Order" at downtown performance arts venue Dixon Place, New York City's Village Voice called her "the bold new voice in solo...a sure-shot writer." She writes plays, monologues, and screenplays, and her hit humor book about the great college football rivalry "When Mommy Loves Bama and Daddy Loves Auburn" is available on Amazon.Deb is a proud member of SAG-AFTRA, Actors' Equity, and the Dramatist's Guild. Show less «