Deborah Bruce

Writer / Director

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Biography

Deborah is a theatre director and playwright. Her most recent play DIXON AND DAUGHTERS went on at the Dorfman at the National Theatre in Spring of this year directed by Roisin McBrinn. DIXON AND DAUGHTERS was a co-production with Clean Break and was initially conceived when Deborah was their Writer in Residence between 2016 and 2018.

Theatre work includes RAYA (Hampstead Theatre); 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). 

Credits

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Production Company Notes
UNTITLED COMMISSION Headlong Theatre

As part of Headlong’s digital project UNPRECEDENTED.
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
DIXON & DAUGHTERS
2023 		Clean Break / National Theatre

Dorfman Theatre
Directed by Roisin McBrinn
RAYA
2021 		Hampstead Theatre

Directed by Roxana Silbert
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
Deborah Bruce
Deborah Bruce
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