Deborah J. Andrews has an extensive arts
and cultural management background
and a notable performance history.
Whether building community, a company, a team, an event or campaign, some of Deborah’s strongest attributes are found in her ability to grow relationships while providing strategic direction, vision and leadership. Proactive management is her forte. No matter the workplace or the role, she endeavours to build collaborative environments and aims to achieve healthy relationships.
She is a servant leader who listens, assimilates and acts, utilizing creative thought and inspiration to both pioneer and also to find solutions to existing challenges.
Deborah carries a BIG dream ~ to one day build a creative arts hub community.
Career History
Author
Deborah has written and published two faith books.
Both Let’s Go! Moving Forward in Faith and her children’s book, Dreamland are the result of Deborah's own personal journey of faith, having heard and responded to dreams and visions from the Lord. She delights in being able to creatively encourage readers, young and old alike to walk by the road less travelled.
Dreamland was released March 15, 2024 and is available in stores and online. Children will absolutely adore the rollicking rhythms and captivating imagery as night-time adventures come to life through God-inspired dreams!
Let's Go! was released March 15, 2025. Readers will be inspired in their own journeys of faith as Deborah shares the highs, the lows, lessons learned, and what it is to walk hand in hand with the King!
Business, Ministry & Events
Deborah produced three full seasons of professional gospel concerts in mainstream venues. She successfully ran Blue Sky Promotions, Inc. for a decade and a charitable trust for a number of years. During those years, she was one of only two professional promoters of Gospel Music concerts in the country.
Deborah managed, produced and promoted international artists and festivals, and directed large-scale events. In 2005, she oversaw and directed The Queen’s 2005 Centennial visit and renaming ceremony for the now Royal Alberta Museum. That same year, she managed the Garden Party for Alberta's Lieutenant Governor.
She and her family moved to Scotland in 2007-2008, participating in ministry work there.
Government
Most recently, Deborah was the Director of Mission and Visits Planning, leading the team responsible for developing and executing programs of international and domestic travel undertaken by the Premier of Alberta and also the Minister of Alberta Economic Development & Trade. She and her team managed Ministerial/MLA international travel requests and worked in partnership with key officials to plan visits for incoming foreign dignitaries.
For nearly 3 decades, Deborah worked in the areas of marketing, communications, media relations, tourism, community relations and event management within cultural departments in the non-profit sector, for corporations, a municipality and also with the provincial government. During that time, she worked with the province’s museum, for presenting and producing theatres and for an international children’s festival. She was responsible for the creation and realization of dozens, if not hundreds, of effective marketing and communications campaigns and worked with countless international artists of almost every genre.
Early Years
Deborah studied voice performance at university – both classical and opera, was an actor-in-residence at Red Deer College, sang both lead and chorus with the Edmonton Opera and also performed in a number of musical productions with professional companies in western Canada. She has acted in commercials and film, improvisation shows, co-written plays and even performed some Shakespeare. She played clarinet with the Nanaimo Symphony, played saxophone in a touring show with Catalyst Theatre, drummed in a pipe band and Highland Danced for 10 years, which included teaching classes and performing at both the PNE in Vancouver and for the Prime Minister in Ontario.
