Debbie Tucker Green is a British playwright, screenwriter, and director. She spells her name in lower-case. She has written a number of plays, including born bad (2003), for which she won the Olivier Award for Most Promising Newcomer in 2004. Most of her stage plays have been produced at the Royal Court Theatre and the Young Vic in London. She has been called "one of the most stylistically innovative and politically engaged playwrights at work in Britain today". tucker green was born in London, and before beginning to write plays worked for a decade as a stage manager. Her 2003 play dirty butterfly was produced by the Soho Theatre, and for her play born bad (Hampstead Theatre, 2003) she won the Olivier Award for Most Promising Newcomer in 2004. Her plays have also been staged at the Royal National Theatre, and performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company. She won a BAFTA Award for random, which was broadcast on Channel 4. In 2016, she won an ARIA (Audio and Radio Industry Award) from the Radio Academy for her radio play Lament. Produced by BBC Radio Drama London and broadcast on BBC Radio 4, Lament won the Gold Best Audio Dramatization prize. tucker green wrote and directed Second Coming (2014), a film set in London starring Nadine Marshall and Idris Elba. The film premiered at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival. It was given a limited release in the UK by Kaleidoscope Entertainment in June 2015, making green only the fourth British black woman to ever have a movie distributed in the UK. tucker green was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer for the film. In 2018, tucker green was commissioned by Channel 4 to direct an episode of their short film series, Random Acts. It was first broadcast at midnight on 15 August 2018. "I'm a black woman," tucker green said. "I write black characters. That is part of my landscape. But with Stoning Mary I was interested in questioning what we don't see and hear. The stories of people who would be in the headlines every day if what was happening to them was happening to white people. It happens all the time. Look at Rwanda. It just fell out of the news. Or Zimbabwe. We're always hearing what is happening to the white farmers but what about the black political activists who are also being killed? Where are the news stories about them?" Being a black woman playwright in the predominantly white world of theatre clearly causes tucker green some unease, and she was asked what she feels about the fact that Stoning Mary is likely to play to the Royal Court's predominantly white audience. "It won't, if the marketing department does its job properly," she says. Then she adds: "It makes me laugh when I walk into theatres and people are tripping over themselves because I am a black playwright. If you're black and working in a shop nobody trips over themselves."

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