Screen NSW Power Lunch with Deborah Huxley, Content & Commissioning Director, Disney+, The Walt Disney Company Australia and New Zealand
Screen NSW is holding a monthly webinar series to help demystify market partners and support mid-level practitioners to feel more confident to create and pitch projects.
Join us on Friday 20 March 2026 at 1.00pm as we speak to Deborah Huxley, Content & Commissioning Director, Disney+ at The Walt Disney Company Australia and New Zealand. We’ll be discussing local content production for Disney+ ANZ across scripted and unscripted, gain insight into what kind of projects the team is looking for and understand how best to pitch to them.
Deborah will be in conversation with Screen NSW Senior Manager, Content Investment Lauren Edwards followed by an audience Q&A.
Deborah Huxley
Deborah Huxley is the Content & Commissioning Director for Disney+ Australia and NZ and has 25 years' experience working in the television and entertainment industry. She will celebrate 10 years with The Walt Disney Company later this year and played a critical role in the launch of Disney+ in November 2019 and bringing general entertainment to Disney+ via the Star tile (now branded Hulu) launched in February 2021.
On commissioning front for Disney+, Deb and her team have worked with formidable Australian producers bringing to the Disney+ platform a slate of home-grown Originals and acquisitions which includes Scripted drama series The Clearing, The Artful Dodger and Last Days of the Space Age; Documentaries Matildas: The World at Our Feet, Shipwreck Hunters Australia (Seasons 1 and 2), Chasing Waves, Fearless: The Inside Story of the AFLW; and Lifestyle and Factual general entertainment series with Donna Hay, including Donna Hay Christmas and Donna Hay Coastal Celebrations.
Latest offerings Donna Hay Coastal Celebrations and The Artful Dodger Season 2 are streaming on Disney+ in 2026.
Prior to the launch of Disney+, Deb worked in Disney’s distribution business selling content from Disney’s brands including ABC Studios, Freeform, Disney, Pixar, Marvel & Lucasfilm to local and global platforms for the ANZ region.
Deborah was also a content buyer for subscription television networks, holding senior acquisition roles at FOXTEL for 10 years working across The LifeStyle Channel, LifeStyle Food, Fox 8, Arena, The History Channel, Crime & Investigation and The Comedy Channel. She was instrumental in securing the original formats for successful Australian brands such as Selling Houses Australia and Grand Designs Australia and for re-introducing the Amazing Race Australia brand for Network 10.
