Debra Simon

An award-winning public arts curator and producer, Debra has more than 30 years of experience in visual and performing arts curation, commissioning and programming for civic organizations, transit hubs, and the real estate industry. Most recently, Debra created the strategic plan for a public art program at Amtrak New York Penn Station, the busiest transit hub in the western hemisphere. Currently, she curates and produces Art at Amtrak for several stations.

As the VP at the Downtown Alliance, she created the Music at Castle Clinton concerts, Dine Around Downtown, and co-founded the River to River Festival. As the Director of Times Square Arts, Debra oversaw Midnight Moment, the world’s largest digital art exhibition on electronic billboards, and the annual Valentine Heart design competition, among other projects for the over 300,000 daily visitors to Times Square. As Artistic Director at Brookfield Properties, Debra led a national arts program that planned and executed multi-disciplinary programming, presenting over 500 free events annually in New York, Denver, Los Angeles and Houston.