Deborah Spera

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Deborah Spera is an American television and film producer. She started at Eden Roc Films, working on What’s Eating Gilbert Grape and From Dusk Till Dawn. She then spent eight years at Showtime, where she produced films like The Baby Dance, Wild Iris, 12 Angry Men, Inherit the Wind, On the Beach, and Freak City, and executive-produced Fathers and Sons. Before Showtime, she worked in features at Regency Films on Guilty by Suspicion, JFK, Free Willy, Under Siege, and Sommersby.

In 2004, Spera helped launch the Mark Gordon Company’s television arm and served as president until 2011. While there, she executive-produced Criminal Minds, Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior, Reaper, and Army Wives. She left in 2011 to form her own company, One-Two Punch Productions. She was the executive producer on the first season of MTV’s Finding Carter. Spera is also a novelist; her first book is Call Your Daughter Home.