Deborah Mollison is a multi-award-winning British composer best known for her score for the 1999 independent British hit film East Is East.​  Mollison began composing at age 7, with perfect pitch. When Mollison listens to a piece of music, she sometimes sees it as a written score in her mind's eye. 

A Junior Exhibitioner at the Royal Academy of Music, she won the Else Cross Prize for pianoforte. She then studied film scoring at UCLA with Don Ray, Gerry Immel, and Jerry Goldsmith, after which she returned to the UK to Middlesex University, where she earned her PhD in music and subsequently taught composition there for eight years.  ​Composing for @ 100 productions, she has also had commissions from the London Philharmonic Orchestra and the Britten Sinfonia.