Deborah Cincotta
DEBORAH CINCOTTA is a writer, producer & founder of Double Cappuccino Productions. She has 15+ years of experience developing TV projects for Hollywood’s leading networks and studios – and has fostered a reputation for being a strong advocate of and mentor to new writers. Her compass is set to tell modern, relatable stories, most often from the female perspective.
Deborah’s entertainment career started in the Movies & Mini-Series Department at NBC before serving as Vice President of Television Development at Laurence Mark Productions (Walt Disney Studios), where she developed and sold movies to Showtime and ABC Family Channel. She moved to Keyser-Lippman Productions (Sony-Columbia Studios) to serve as Vice-President of TV & Film Development expanding her focus into broadcast drama series, overseeing the hiring of the writing staffs for “Party of Five” (FOX) and “Time of Your Life” (FOX), assisting the development and production of two network pilots (CBS & FOX) and serving as an Associate Producer on the network run of “Time of Your Life.” During this time, Deborah helped launch the careers of new, young writers. Several of them would go on to become some of Hollywood’s top leading female showrunners. Bravo women!
During the years in which Deborah stepped back from Hollywood to prioritize raising her children, she founded and launched an e-commerce search engine startup (Totefish.com), co-chaired multiple elementary school & university committees, completed the first draft of a novel, and, in an attempt to address her fear of public speaking, joined the The Second City’s Conservatory Improv program. Yes, and.
In 2017, Erica Messer, the longtime showrunner of CBS’ “Criminal Minds” (and one of the writers whose career Deborah set in motion years back) asked Deborah to spearhead the launch of Erica Messer Productions, an ABC Studios-based TV production company. For the next five years, Deborah oversaw and ran all aspects of the company including the development and sale of multiple drama series to the studio + ABC network.
In June, 2022, Deborah launched Double Cappuccino Productions. As a producer, she develops and produces TV + film + theater projects with writers interested in a strong partnership with a hands-on producer. As a writer, she writes original scripts for film + TV + theater and is available for select assignments. Her first theater project is the two-woman show, GOOD and GASLIT premiering at the Hollywood Fringe Festival & Edinburgh Fringe Festivals in summer, 2023.
Deborah works + lives in Los Angeles with her husband and their two adult-ish children.
www.doublecapp.com
Twitter @deborahcincotta
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