Debbie Dorsey is one of the women in the film "No Hair Day" that is broadcast on PBS, especially during breast cancer awareness month in October. Ms. Dorsey was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the eldest of three children to Thomas Francis Dorsey and Virginia Raphael (Doherty) Dorsey. She has one sister, Joanne Susan (Dorsey) Geary, and one brother, Thomas Francis Dorsey, Jr. Ms. Dorsey was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1997. She underwent chemotherapy, radiation, 5 years of Tamoxifen and is now on Femera. When Ms. Dorsey was in radiation, she called Portrait Artist Elsa Dorfman and told her, "You should take my picture." Ms. Dorfman, being the artist that she is, said, "Cool." Ms. Dorsey enlisted both Libby Levinson, an executive secretary in Boston and Carol Potoff, an artist and art teacher in Harwich, Massachusetts. Ms. Dorsey's husband, Bob Burns, also a filmmaker, shot the day on a cold February morning, where Dorsey, Levinson and Potoff brought everything they could think of to the studios of Elsa Dorfman. What ensued were 13 portraits of the women baring all in large scale format polaroids. Mr. Burns shot everything, edited the footage which was first broadcast in 2001 and picked up nationwide on PBS - "No Hair Day."
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