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Debbie Allen
Debbie Allen graduated from Howard University and used her experiences from
attending an historically Black College to inform her production and direction of the TV
show "A Different World". She, her sister Phylicia, brother Tex, and their mother spent
over a year in Mexico when they were young. Her mother made the decision to go there
to give her children a brief experience of not having to endure the chronic racism and
segregation that was typical of Texas during Debbie's childhood. As a result of this
experience, Debbie and her sister Phylicia are fluent in Spanish. Although her parents
divorced, Debbie remained extremely close to her father, Andrew Allen until his death.
She and her sister had a production company called "D.A.D." which stood for "Doctor
Allen's Daughters". Her Pulitzer-nominated poet mother is, however, the artistic and free
spirit that has influenced and encouraged the remarkable creativity that so marks Allen as
a performer. Her daughter Vivian was named for Debbie's mother, Vivian Ayers-Allen.
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