Debbie Lütge
Deborah Arlene Lütge is an award winning performer/director, published poet, playwright and theatre practitioner.
Generally referred to as Debbie Lütge in the industry.
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, is a long-serving Theatre Judge, currently for The Mercury Durban Theatre Awards. Board Member in a South African/Dutch exchange project and Artistic Director of RITE Studios, Lütge’s directing credits range from Broadway Musicals to Shakespeare to diverse dramas and workshops at the Grahamstown National Arts Festival since 1992. After working internationally Lütge founded Durban’s New Director’s Festival & New Playwright’s Festival. Lütge, assistant directed The Serpent (1994) to commemorate 25 years since the USA Kent State Shootings, staged the first South African production of West-Side Story, directed world premieres including People of Heaven, a work for the 2007 Mahatma Gandhi International Peace and Reconciliation Awards; and a 60th Birthday Tribute to South African President Jacob Zuma at the Durban Hilton.