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1 Career  



1.1  Film career  





1.2  Television career  







2 Selected works  



2.1  Theatre  





2.2  Film  





2.3  Radio  





2.4  Television  







3 Selected awards  





4 References  





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debbie tucker green
BornLondon, UK
NationalityBritish
GenrePlaywright
Notable awardsBAFTA,
ARIA

Debbie Tucker Green (stylized in lower-case as debbie tucker green [1]) is a British playwright, screenwriter, and director.[2] She has written a number of plays, including born bad (2003), for which she won the Olivier Award for Most Promising Newcomer in 2004. Most of her stage plays have been produced at the Royal Court Theatre and the Young Vic in London. She has been called "one of the most stylistically innovative and politically engaged playwrights at work in Britain today".[3]

Career

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tucker green was born in London, and before beginning to write plays worked for a decade as a stage manager.[4] Her 2003 play dirty butterfly was produced by the Soho Theatre, and for her play born bad (Hampstead Theatre, 2003) she won the Olivier Award for Most Promising Newcomer in 2004. Her plays have also been staged at the Royal National Theatre, and performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company.

She won a BAFTA Award for random, which was broadcast on Channel 4.[5]

In 2016, she won an ARIA (Audio and Radio Industry Award) from the Radio Academy for her radio play Lament. Produced by BBC Radio Drama London and broadcast on BBC Radio 4, Lament won the Gold Best Audio Dramatisation prize.[6]

Film career

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tucker green wrote and directed Second Coming (2014), a film set in London starring Nadine Marshall and Idris Elba. The film premiered at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival.[7] It was given a limited release in the UK by Kaleidoscope Entertainment in June 2015, making green only the fourth British black woman to ever have a movie distributed in the UK, following Ngozi Onwurah, Amma Asante, and Destiny Ekaragha. tucker green was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer for the film.

Television career

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In 2018, tucker green was commissioned by Channel 4 to direct an episode of their short film series, Random Acts. It was first broadcast at midnight on 15 August 2018.[8]

Selected works

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Theatre

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Film

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Radio

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Television

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Selected awards

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References

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  1. ^ Michael Billington, "truth and reconciliation – review", The Guardian, 6 September 2011.
  • ^ Lyn Gardner, "'I was messing about'", The Guardian, 30 March 2005.
  • ^ Abram, Nicola (2014). "Staging the unsayable: debbie tucker green's political theatre". Journal of Contemporary Drama in English. 2 (12): 113–130. doi:10.1515/jcde-2014-0009. ISSN 2195-0164.
  • ^ debbie tucker green – Biography, National Theatre Black Plays Archive.
  • ^ "BFI announces support for debut features from Debbie Tucker Green and Esther May Campbell", BFI, 14 May 2015.
  • ^ "ARIAS - the winners!". Retrieved 20 December 2016.[permanent dead link]
  • ^ "Programmes – Discovery – Second Coming". Archived from the original on 5 June 2015. Retrieved 5 June 2015.
  • ^ "Exclusive first look: Debbie Tucker Green's short film for Channel 4's Random Acts". The Stage. 14 August 2018. Retrieved 7 September 2018.
  • ^ "two women", Black Plays Archive, National Theatre.
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