debbie Tucker Green

debbie tucker green [sic] is an award-winning playwright, screenwriter, and director.^[1] She spells her name in lower-case letters.^[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 has also won a BAFTA 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.

Film Career

green wrote and directed Second Coming (2014 film), a film set in London starring Nadine Marshall and Idris Elba. The film premiered at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival.^[4] It was given a limited release in the UK by Kaleidoscope Entertainment in June of 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.

Selected works

Theatre

• "two women" (Soho Theatre, 2000)
• "dirty butterfly" (Soho Theatre, 2003)
• "born bad" (Hampstead Theatre, 2003)
• "trade" (The Other Place, 2004)
• "stoning mary" (Royal Court Theatre, 2005)
• "generations" (Cottesloe Theatre, National Theatre, 2005)
• "Laws of War" (Royal Court Theatre, 2010)
• "random" (Royal Court Theatre, 2008)
• "Truth and Reconciliation" (Royal Court Theatre, 2011)

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Film

Second Coming (2014 film)

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. "Programmes – Discovery – Second Coming". Retrieved 5 June 2015.
5. "debbie tucker green – Biography", National Theatre Black Plays Archive.