Debbie Horsfield

Debbie Horsfield
Born	1955 (age 55–56) Eccles, Lancashire, United Kingdom
Occupation	Writer Producer
Years active	1982–present
Spouse	Martin Wenner

Debbie Horsfield (born 1955) is a British theatre and television writer and producer.

Early life and career

Hosfield was born in Eccles, Lancashire and she attended Eccles College before studying at Newcastle University.

Horsfield has worked for the Gulbenkian Studio, Newcastle, and for the Royal Shakespeare Company. Her first plays were Out on the Flool, Away from it All and All You Deserve. She was commissioned to write Red Devils (which later became a trilogy) by the Liverpool Playhouse Studio in 1983, where she stayed for a year under the Thames Television Playwright Scheme. The follow ups to Red Devils were True Dare Kiss, later to be adapted for a TV series,^[1] and Command or Promise. A further play was titled Touch and Go (later renamed Revelations).^[2]

Television career

In the 1980s Horsfield began her television career by writing 3 series of Making Out and an episode of Crown Court. In the 1990s Horsfield wrote the series Sex, Chips & Rock n' Roll, Born to Run, and The Riff Raff Element. In the 2000s she began to produce her shows as well as write them; 4 series of the hair salon based Cutting It and the mystery drama True Dare Kiss are examples of her work for BBC One.^[3]

Horsfield has twice won BAFTA Best Drama Series award nominations, for The Riff Raff Element in 1994 and for Cutting It in 2003.

All The Small Things (2009), broadcast by BBC One, follows the trials and tribulations of a northern church choir.^[4]

References

1. ^ "Interview with writer Debbie Horsfield". BBC. http://www.bbc.co.uk/drama/truedarekiss/interview.shtml. Retrieved 2008-05-13. 
2. ^ "Writers". 2008-04-23. http://dspace.dial.pipex.com/town/parade/abj76/PG/works/new_plays/writers.shtml. Retrieved 2008-05-13. 
3. ^ "Award-winning writer Debbie Horsfield returns to BBC One with True Dare Kiss". BBC Press Office. 2007-01-19. http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2007/01_january/19/kiss.shtml. Retrieved 2008-05-13. 
4. ^ "All-singing new drama series announced for BBC One". BBC Press Office. 2008-09-03. http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2008/09_september/03/choir.shtml. Retrieved 2008-12-30. 

External links

• Debbie Horsfield at the Internet Movie Database

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Name	Horsfield, Debbie
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Date of birth	1955
Place of birth	Eccles, Lancashire, UK
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