Deborah Bruce

Writer / Director

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Photograph: Lesley Bruce

Film, TV & Theatre

Agent: Giles Smart

Giles Smart

Assistant: Ellie Byrne

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Film, TV & Theatre

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Deborah is a theatre director and playwright. Her most recent play RAYA, will be at Hampstead Theatre in January 2021 directed by Roxanna Silbert.

Deborah was Clean Break's Writer in Residence between 2016-18 and her play DIXON AND DAUGHTERS will be produced next year directed by Roisin McBrinn.

Theatre work includes OUR FATHER (Rada); THE HOUSE THEY GREW UP IN (Headlong/Chichester Festival Theatre); THE DISTANCE (Orange Tree/Sheffield Theatres/Melbourne Theatre Company); JOANNE (Soho Theatre/Clean Break); SAME (National Theatre – NT Theatre Connections Festival) and GODCHILD (Hampstead Downstairs).

Most recent work as director includes PRIDE AND PREDJUDICE (Regent’s Park).

In Development

Production	Company	Notes
UNTITLED COMMISSION	Headlong Theatre	As part of Headlong's digital project UNPRECEDENTED.
UNTITLED COMMISSION	Hampstead Theatre	New play commission.
DIXON & DAUGHTERS	Clean Break	New play in development.
BIG AMY	House Productions	Original series in development Co-written with Tanya Ronder
SPY SHOP	Chapter One	Original series in development Co-written with Tanya Ronder

Theatre

Production	Company	Notes
OUR FATHER 2018	RADA	Written for the RADA Elders. Published in THE WORDS WILL COME collection by Oberon.
THE HOUSE THEY GREW UP IN 2017	Chichester / Headlong	Dir. Jeremy Herrin. Publised by Nick Hern Books.
THE DISTANCE 2016	Melbourne Theatre Company	Dir. Leticia Cáceres
JOANNE 2015	Clean Break	One of five writers chosen to write monologues to be performed at Latitude Festival. Transfers to Soho Theatre October 2015. Published by Nick Hern Books.
THE DISTANCE 2015	Sheffield Theatres/ The Orange Tree Theatre	Revival Dir. by Charlotte Gwinner
THE LIGHT 2015	Live Theatre	Short play commission for Rendezvous (Julia Darling Anniversary event)
THE DISTANCE 2014	Orange Tree Theatre	Dir. Charlotte Gwinner Published by Nick Hern Books *Finalist for Susan Smith Blackburn Prize 2012/13
SAME 2014	NT Connections Festival 2014 - National Theatre	Published by Methuen Drama (as part of NT Connections 2014 collected works) Published by Nick Hern Books (as single volume)
GODCHILD 2013	Hampstead Theatre Downstairs	Dir. Michael Attenborough Published by Nick Hern Books
AS DIRECTOR
PRIDE AND PREJUDICE 2016	Regent's Park Open Air Theatre	As Director By Jane Austen In an adaptation by Simon Reade