New York-based editorial house Cutting Room has brought on editor Debbie McMurtrey. The move to Cutting Room reunites McMurtrey with mentor Chuck Willis, who she first assisted at Crew Cuts.
“Debbie is a serious editor with a great sense of humor,” notes Cutting Room EP Susan Willis. “We’re so glad to be working with her again.”
The Chicago native first discovered editing while studying Visual Communications at the University of Michigan. Moving to New York after graduation, McMurtrey launched her career at Crew Cuts in 1999, rising quickly through the ranks to editor; she joined Nomad, NY in 2007 when the East Coast office opened. Her eye for comedy and dialogue is seen in successful campaigns for NFL, PepsiCo, Dick’s Sporting Goods, Pizza Hut, Gillette and Oral B, working with such A-list directors as Joe Pytka, Jesse Dylan, Rocky Morton, and Matt Aselton.
Her TV credits include a six-year tenure cutting popular parodies for NBC’s Saturday Night Live. Best known SNL spoofs include “Taco Town” and Tressant Supreme” with Kelly Ripa. In 2008, she cut a VH1 pilot, “Star Stories,” an adaptation of an award-winning British comedy.
Film credits include 2006 festival favorite “The Path of Most Resistance.”

ABOUT CUTTING ROOM

Cutting Room, New York, is an artist-owned and operated editorial and post-production powerhouse, led by Partner/EP Susan Willis, and Partners/Editors Chuck Willis and Mike Douglas. Extreme attention to every detail of the post process is the working credo at this full-service shop, along with an uncompromised effort to deliver highly-personalized, unique client experiences. Cutting Room’s talent, location, infrastructure, and approach have generated a multitude of awards for their work; the shop has lent its expertise to major brands such as Bank of America, Comcast, Unilever, Yamaha, ESPN, Arby’s, BMW, NY Lotto and Miller. Cutting Room continues to evolve, refining its work, its talent roster and its identity, forging a creative team able to handle projects across all formats including broadcast, features, documentaries, virals and webisodes as well as VFX, sound design, and online services.
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