Drama Staff - Deborah McAndrew

Specialist Interests: Playwriting and Acting
Playwright and actor Deborah McAndrew studied Drama at Manchester University; followed by a PGCE in Drama and Special Education at Bretton Hall College.

Deborah’s educational work includes guest lecturing at the Universities of Manchester, Bolton and Staffordshire. She also has a broad experience of working with young people, coaching for LAMDA exams, and in schools for Creative Partnerships. Deborah has also written a number of Education and Resource Packs for Northern Broadsides Theatre Company, and is currently writing the Education Pack for their next production of Hamlet.

In her acting career Deborah has worked extensively in theatre, television and radio. Theatre credits include: Jamaica Inn, Stags and Hens, A Christmas Carol, East Lynne, Pinocchio – for the New Vic Theatre; Much Ado About Nothing, King Lear, Anthony and Cleopatra, A Midsummer Night’s Dream – for Northern Broadsides; Cabaret, Derby Day, The Rise and Fall of Little Voice – Octagon Theatre, Bolton; Sugar Sugar – The Bush Theatre; Educating Rita – Oldham Coliseum; Talking Heads, The Malvern Widow, Hard Times – Swan Theatre, Worcester; The Sound of Music – Queens Theatre, Hornchurch. Deborah has appeared regularly on BBC Radio Drama for almost twenty years. Credits for 2010 include: Stone, Wives and Daughters, Wings of the Dove, Yerma, A Kind of Loving. Coming up in 2011: The Market (BBC Radio 4) and Woyzeck (BBC Radio 3). In addition to numerous guest appearance on television, Deborah played regular, Angie Freeman, in Coronation Street over a number of years.

Writing credits include: DAVID COPPERFIELD (2010-11) Octagon Theatre, Bolton; KING MACBETH (2010) Reveal Theatre Company; OLIVER TWIST (2009) Octagon Theatre, Bolton; FLAMINGOLAND (2008) New Vic Theatre, published by Nick Hern Books; ACCIDENTAL DEATH OF AN ANARCHIST (2008), VACUUM (2006) THE BELLS (2004) Northern Broadsides.

Current writing commissions include: SPONGE - short film for Junction 15 Productions

Writers Attachments: National Theatre Studio; Birmingham Repertory Theatre.