Deb Cox

Deb Cox
BornDeborah Cox
(1958-01-29) 29 January 1958 (age 66)
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
OccupationScreenwriter, producer
NationalityAustralian
EducationFirbank Girls' Grammar School
Alma materUniversity of Melbourne
RMIT University
Notable worksSeaChange, Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries

Deborah Cox (born 29 January 1958) is an Australian screenwriter and producer for television and film.

Cox started working in the television industry as a production assistant for the Crawford Productions television series Skyways. It was at Crawfords that she met her long-time writing and producing partner, Andrew Knight, and the duo would later go on to found a production company, CoxKnight Productions. Their partnership resulted in the development of the popular ABC TV series SeaChange and After the Deluge, the Network Ten dramas CrashBurn and Worst Best Friends, and the feature film Dead Letter Office.[1] With Roger Monk, she also wrote the two seasons of the ABC drama series East of Everything which starred Richard Roxburgh as the main character.

Cox also founded Every Cloud Productions with producer Fiona Eagger which developed and produced The Gods of Wheat Street, East of Everything, Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries, and Newton's Law.[2][3]

  1. ^ Worst Best Friends, The Sydney Morning Herald, 10 June 2003.
  2. ^ Groves, Don: Every Cloud has a silver lining, Inside Film, 10 March 2015.
  3. ^ "ABC goes back to the Bar for new drama Newton's Law" (Press release). Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 1 June 2016. Archived from the original on 24 April 2018. Retrieved 18 March 2017.