debbie tucker green

debbie tucker green [sic] is an award-winning playwright, screenwriter, and director.[1] She spells her name in lower-case.[2]

Career

She has written a number of plays, including born bad for which she won the Olivier Award for Most Promising Newcomer in 2004.

She won a BAFTA Award for random, which was broadcast on Channel 4.[3]

Most of her stage plays have been produced at the Royal Court Theatre and the Young Vic in London.

In 2016 she won an ARIA from the Radio Academy for her radio play Lament. Lament - produced by BBC Radio Drama London and broadcast on BBC Radio 4 - won the Gold Best Audio Dramatisation prize.[4]

Film career

green wrote and directed Second Coming, a film set in London starring Nadine Marshall and Idris Elba. The film premiered at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival.[5] It was given a limited release in the UK by Kaleidoscope Entertainment in June 2015 making green only the 4th British black woman to ever have a movie distributed in the UK following Ngozi Onwurah, Amma Asante, and Destiny Ekaragha. She was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer for the film.

Selected works

Theatre

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Film

Second Coming

References

  1. ↑ Lyn Gardner, "'I was messing about'", The Guardian, 30 March 2005.
  2. ↑ Michael Billington, "truth and reconciliation – review", The Guardian, 6 September 2011.
  3. ↑ "BFI announces support for debut features from Debbie Tucker Green and Esther May Campbell", BFI, 14 May 2015.
  4. ↑ "ARIAS - the winners!". Retrieved 20 December 2016.
  5. ↑ "Programmes – Discovery – Second Coming". Archived from the original on 5 June 2015. Retrieved 5 June 2015.
  6. ↑ debbie tucker green – Biography, National Theatre Black Plays Archive.

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