With more than three decades experience in the Australian screen industry, Deb Cox has been responsible for originating, writing and producing some of Australia’s most iconic screen content.
Deb Cox (L) with Co-Producer, Fiona Eagger on the set of Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries.
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After establishing herself as a commissioned screenwriter and script editor, Deb’s first original series as Writer and Co-Producer was the miniseries, Simone de Beauvoir’s Babies in 1997 for the ABC – a dramedy about a group of old school-friends in their late thirties combining forces to procreate after two decades of troubled relationships and thwarted careers – which established David Wenham as a romantic lead and earned him an AFI award.
She won an AWGIE writing award in 1999 for her first feature film, Dead Letter Office, starring Miranda Otto, about a displaced Chilean who has lost everything, magical pigeons and returned letters.
As part of CoxKnight Productions with Andrew Knight, Deb co-created and wrote three series of the much-loved
ABC series SeaChange, the drama series CrashBurn and developed the children’s series, Worst Best Friends.
In 2009, after moving to Byron Bay in Australia and Co-Creating two series of East of Everything - the first prime time drama series shot there - starring Richard Roxburgh and Susie Porter - Deb joined forces with producer Fiona Eagger to form Every Cloud Productions.
She went on to Co-Create, Co-Produce and head the writing team on three series of the international hit period drama MissFisher’s Murder Mysteries (starring Essie Davis ), two series of Ms Fisher’s Modern Mysteries, contemporary legal series Newton’s Law, starring Claudia Karvan, and the feature film, Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears.
She has also worked as Executive Producer and Story Producer on Indigenous drama TheGods of Wheat Street; the youth short-form series,Deadlock, the drama series Eden shot in Byron Bay and two Christmas movies for Stan - Sunburnt Christmas and A Christmas Ransom for Stan.
She won an AWGIE writing award in 1999 for her first feature film, Dead Letter Office, starring Miranda Otto, about a displaced Chilean who has lost everything, magical pigeons and returned letters.
As part of CoxKnight Productions with Andrew Knight, Deb co-created and wrote three series of the much-loved
ABC series SeaChange, the drama series CrashBurn and developed the children’s series, Worst Best Friends.
In 2009, after moving to Byron Bay in Australia and Co-Creating two series of East of Everything - the first prime time drama series shot there - starring Richard Roxburgh and Susie Porter - Deb joined forces with producer Fiona Eagger to form Every Cloud Productions.
She went on to Co-Create, Co-Produce and head the writing team on three series of the international hit period drama MissFisher’s Murder Mysteries (starring Essie Davis ), two series of Ms Fisher’s Modern Mysteries, contemporary legal series Newton’s Law, starring Claudia Karvan, and the feature film, Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears.
She has also worked as Executive Producer and Story Producer on Indigenous drama TheGods of Wheat Street; the youth short-form series,Deadlock, the drama series Eden shot in Byron Bay and two Christmas movies for Stan - Sunburnt Christmas and A Christmas Ransom for Stan.
In 2015, Deb was awarded the Byron Bay International Film Festival Award for Contribution to the Northern Rivers Film Industry and remains an active member, advocate and mentor within that community.
In 2016, Deb was jointly awarded the Jill Robb Award for Outstanding Leadership, Achievement and Service to the Victorian Screen Industry.
In July 2017, Deb was the joint-recipient of Film Victoria’s Screen Business Ventures funding, with Every Cloud Productionsbeing named as one of eight companies to share in more than $2.7m to increase growth and output capacity, and showcase Australian talent to the world.
Deb, along with Fiona Eagger, was the joint recipient of an esteemed Screen Business Export award at the 2017 ScreenProducers Australia Awards, receiving the award on behalf of Every
Cloud Productions.
Deb has been a mentor under the Natalie Miller Fellowship Brilliant Careers program, has been a speaker and teacher on various programs for Northern Rivers Screenworks, the Byron Writer’s Festival and Victorian College of the Arts. She has been a judge for the Byron Bay Short Film Festival and her original works have been nominated and won numerous awards over the last three decades.
After Deb and Fiona handed the reins of EveryCloud Productions to others in early 2022, Deb has returned to freelance screenwriting, story-producing and mentoring for the wider Australian and International Screen Industry.
In 2016, Deb was jointly awarded the Jill Robb Award for Outstanding Leadership, Achievement and Service to the Victorian Screen Industry.
In July 2017, Deb was the joint-recipient of Film Victoria’s Screen Business Ventures funding, with Every Cloud Productionsbeing named as one of eight companies to share in more than $2.7m to increase growth and output capacity, and showcase Australian talent to the world.
Deb, along with Fiona Eagger, was the joint recipient of an esteemed Screen Business Export award at the 2017 ScreenProducers Australia Awards, receiving the award on behalf of Every
Cloud Productions.
Deb has been a mentor under the Natalie Miller Fellowship Brilliant Careers program, has been a speaker and teacher on various programs for Northern Rivers Screenworks, the Byron Writer’s Festival and Victorian College of the Arts. She has been a judge for the Byron Bay Short Film Festival and her original works have been nominated and won numerous awards over the last three decades.
After Deb and Fiona handed the reins of EveryCloud Productions to others in early 2022, Deb has returned to freelance screenwriting, story-producing and mentoring for the wider Australian and International Screen Industry.