Bridget Deane

Bridget Deane is a working-class, dyslexic writer based in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, who has written for TV, film and theatre. Before becoming a writer, Bridget worked for twelve years as a Bafta winning producer/director on primetime network documentaries, both in the UK & USA. After leaving documentary producing, Bridget completed John Yorke’s first Showrunner Training Programme and the EastEnders BBC Shadow scheme which lead her to a writing position on Emmerdale where she was an episodic writer. Bridget has various projects in development with BFI, Hattrick, Pett Productions, Bonefide Film. Most recently, Bridget won a script commission from ITV Studios via their Disabled Writers Programme, her original drama ENDELL STREET was selected from hundreds of entries and is currently in development at Tall Story Pictures. The returning tv series is based on the life of queer suffragette general surgeon Dr Edith Myrtle who ran a hospital during the first world war, at a time when queer relationships were a secret and female surgeons were not considered equal to their male colleagues.