Writing

Deborah Frances-White is a well-known script writer who works in radio, television, books and film.

Her BBC Radio 4 series Deborah Frances-White Rolls the Dice won her a Writers Guild Award. Her film Say My Name was out in spring 2019. Her play Never Have I Ever was a smash hit at Chichester and further productions are planned in Melbourne, Perth and Berlin. She is developing a second play for Chichester, and recently finished the screenplay for her second film Making Babies for Redwave Films. She is currently working on an animated film for Warner Bros and a TV thriller for Lingo in Australia.

With Philippa Waller she has written two episodes of Young Dracula for CBBC. They sold their first screenplay – co-written with Monica Beletsky – The Wedding Pact – to Fox Searchlight. Deborah’s play Escape from Eden was selected for The Cameron Mackintosh New Writing Festival judged by Christopher Hampton.

Deborah has co-written The Improv Handbook with Tom Salinsky which is a theatre best seller on Amazon and is now in its Second Edition with Bloomsbury. Deborah also co-wrote Off The Mic with Marsha Shandur which was nominated for a 2016 Chortle Award. Her book The Guilty Feminist was a Sunday Times best-seller and her new book Six Conversations We’re Scared to Have is out in April 2025.

Here is the trailer for Say My Name.