Deb O is a founding member and co-director of Artbarn, 2013 to 2017. Artbarn is a collective of innovative artists from across disciplines and around the country who gather for an annual residency to collaboratively generate original site-specific work. The first three new works, Home Stretch, This is a Ghost House, and The Circle, were all produced in various turn of the century buildings on the Byrdcliff estate near Woodstock, New York. Artbarn collaborated with Satori Group in Seattle, Washington, at the Georgetown Steam Plant to produce their newest play We Remain Prepared. They have been working on the project for a year of bi-coastal devising, which will culminate in an intensive residency in Seattle in which both companies will live and work together. They also taught a site-specific class to theater students in Tacoma, Washington.

Deb O’s work in film has lead her to full length films as well as several shorts. The short films are Bad Dad, Little One, A Poem and a Mistake, the award winning short Muscle, and Jolly Friends Forever More. She also designed a music video Half Of It. The first full length film is I Am A Seagull followed by Man and Witch: A Dance of a Thousand Steps, which took her to Scotland where the land was full of castles, parks and cathedrals. The film premiered in London June 2024 and in New York July 2024. The film stars Tami Stronach as the Witch (who’s known for the role of the little princess from Neverending Story) and her husband Greg Strun as the Man (who also wrote the film). This 80’s inspired grassroots film has been near and dear to her heart. She has been riding this roller coaster with Tami and Greg giving support through the whole process. Now she cannot wait for the rest of the world to see it.

Deb O is a member of the Wingspace design collective.  She taught design at NYU's Tisch Playwrights Horizons Theater School for eight years. She taught a site-specific design class at University of Puget Sound and for several years taught a collaboration class to the MFA directors at Brown University. She also taught at Marquette University, Fordham University, Fairmont University, Meredith College, Hunter College, Simson College, NTI National Theater Institute, Connecticut College, Wild Wind Performance Lab and the Met. In 2016, she was invited to USITT to speak about site-specific theater. Deb O is a recipient of Yale's Jay and Rhonda Keene Award, has been featured twice at the Prague Quadrennial, and has received numerous American College Theater Festival Awards including Best Designer of the Year. In 2013, her site specific piece at an abandoned grain factory in Red Hook, New York, was chosen as one of the 10 best theater productions in New York. She is also a member of the Union Scenic Artist Union Local 829.