Debbie Duru is a designer for performance spaces, working across theatre, film, dance and fashion.

Theatre credits as Set & Costume designer include Beneatha’s Place (Young Vic), Run Rebel (Pilot theatre/Mercury Theatre), Ravenscourt (Hampstead Theatre), The White Card (Northern Stage), Two Billion Beats (Orange Tree Theatre), The Song Project (Royal Court), …cake (Theatre Peckham), Dagny Wants to Dance (Bureau of Silly Ideas), Josephine (Theatre Royal Bath).

Theatre credits as Costume designer include Twice Born (Scottish Ballet/Theatre Royal Glasgow), Romeo and Juliet (The Almeida) and Alice in Wonderland (Brixton House).

Credits as Associate Set designer include Mandela, The Musical (Young Vic), Get Up Stand Up! The Bob Marley Musical (Lyric Theatre) and Dick Whittington (National Theatre).

She is a recipient of the Black British Theatre Award 2023 for Theatre design, an Offie nominee as Costume designer for Alice in Wonderland, and was a Linbury Prize finalist (2019).