Debbie Horsfield

Debbie Horsfield
Born	1955 (age 61–62) Eccles, Lancashire, England
Occupation	Writer Producer
Years active	1982–present
Spouse(s)	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 went on to work at the Gulbenkian Studio, Newcastle (1978–80), and for Trevor Nunn at The Royal Shakespeare Company, 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,.

In 1982 Horsfield adapted her stage play Out On The Floor for BBC2 and wrote an episode of Crown Court for Granada Television..

From 1989-91 she wrote all three series of the BBC1 factory-based drama Making Out. (Royal Television Society 'Best Drama Series' Nomination).

1993-94 Both series of BBC One 6-part series The Riff Raff Element. (BAFTA 'Best Drama Series' Nomination, Writers Guild 'Best Drama Series' Nomination)

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