Debra Fordham is an American television producer and

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. She is best known for her work on the

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'' Scrubs''.

Early life

Fordham is a graduate of

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in Valdosta,

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, where she studied theatre under the direction of Dr. Randy Wheeler. In early 2008 she was in Valdosta again to see VSU's production of her play ''Holler Me Home'', centered on the lives of a family of Okefenokee swampers. ''Holler Me Home'' was accepted into WaterTower Theatre's 2008 Out of the Loop Festival in Addison, Texas.

Career

She wrote sixteen episodes of ''Scrubs'', two of which, " My Life in Four Cameras" and "

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", are considered to be among the best ''Scrubs'' episodes. Fordham also appears briefly at the end of the ''Scrubs'' episode " My Full Moon", where she plays a doctor who gets over-excited at a cup of coffee and performs an action described by Dr. Todd Quinlan as the "low arm pump". Fordham's other television credits include '' Army Wives'' and ''

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''. She served as a co-executive producer on the

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television series '' Nashville'', and then on the

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Original ''

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''.

References

External links

* *Interview with

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