Debbie Horsfield
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Debbie Horsfield | |
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| Born | 1955 (age 69–70) Eccles, Lancashire, England |
| Alma mater | Newcastle University (BA (Hon)) |
| Occupation(s) | Writer, producer |
| Years active | 1982–present |
| Spouse | Martin Wenner |
Debbie Horsfield (born 1955) is an English theatre and television writer and producer.
Horsfield was born in Urmston and she attended Eccles Grammar School and Eccles College before studying at Newcastle University, where she gained a BA Honours degree in English Language and Literature.
Horsfield worked at the Gulbenkian Studio, Newcastle (1978–1980), and for Trevor Nunn at The Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC), 1980–82. Her first plays Out on the Floor and Away from it All were produced at the Theatre Royal Stratford East studio and All You Deserve was performed as part of an RSC Festival at the Barbican.
In 1983, she won the Thames Television Playwrights Award and became Resident Writer at the Liverpool Playhouse. There she was commissioned to write the Red Devils Trilogy (Red Devils, True Dare Kiss, and Command Or Promise).
The last two of these were first performed at the National Theatre's studio, the Cottesloe, in 1985. For these plays she was nominated for the 1985 Evening Standard Awards 'Most Promising Playwright'. True Dare Kiss was later to be adapted for a TV series.[1]
In 2005, she returned to the theatre to adapt her TV series Sex, Chips & Rock 'n Roll as a musical for the Royal Exchange, Manchester.
