Debbie Horsfield was born in Eccles, Greater Manchester in 1955. She won the Thames TV Writer's Award in 1983 and was appointed Writer in Residence at the Liverpool Playhouse in the same year. Her plays include Arrangements, Out On The Floor, Away From It All, Face Value, All You Deserve, Red Devils, True Dare Kiss and Command or Promise, Touch and Go, and Revelations. She has twice been nominated for a BAFTA Best Drama Series award; in 1994 with The Riff Raff Element and in 2003 with Cutting It.
