Deborah McAndrew

Deborah McAndrew (born 1967) is a British playwright and actor, known for playing Angie Freeman in Coronation Street in the 1990s. She is also co-founder and Creative Director of the Stoke-on-Trent-based Claybody Theatre Company, and a visiting lecturer in the Department of Drama and Theatre Arts at Staffordshire University.

McAndrew was born in Huddersfield, West Riding of Yorkshire, and later moved to Ossett and then Leeds. She had two younger sisters. She had always wanted to write plays; the family regularly holidayed with another family with four children, giving her a cast of seven.

She studied drama at the University of Manchester and a PGCE in Drama and Special Education at Bretton Hall College of Education.

McAndrew joined the cast of the long-lived Granada television soap Coronation Street for four years across two periods in the 1990s, playing young designer Angie Freeman. She has appeared in theatre, radio and television including the BBC Radio 4 detective series Stone, and as Mrs. Dashwood in Helen Edmundson's 2013 Radio 4 adaptation of Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility. She first joined Northern Broadsides as an actor in 1995.

In 2004 McAndrew adapted Leopold Lewis's 1871 play The Bells for Northern Broadsides. Since then her adaptations have included Dario Fo’s Accidental Death of an Anarchist,Nikolai Gogol’s The Government Inspector and Nikolai Erdman’s The Suicide, under the new title The Grand Gesture.

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