Deborah Frances-White
- Australian
- Actor, writer, executive producer and stand-up comedian
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Bechdel Testing Edinburgh Fringe festival
This month we're taking time out from holding Bechdel Theatre Festival conversations to Bechdel test some of the many (many, many) shows at the worlds biggest theatre festival in Edinburgh. We've been endorsing Bechdel test passing shows with stickers. Keep your eye out if you're looking at a wall of posters and want to choose something with women at the forefront to break up the overwhelming maleness of most of the festival scene. If you see this logo you can be sure that women are being represented.
Bechdel Theatre, 15th August 2016Standard Issue at the Fringe: part two
As the Edinburgh Fringe dives into its first week proper, we thought there was no better time to offer up part two of our round-up of Standard Issue contributors who are up there, doing their talented thing.
Standard Issue, 8th August 2016Standard Issue at the Fringe: part one
As the curtain comes up on thousands of shows in Edinburgh, we thought we'd put a spotlight on our lovely contributors who will be taking a lot of bows over the next month. There'll be more on Monday.
Standard Issue, 5th August 2016Deborah Frances-White Rolls The Dice recommissioned
Deborah Frances-White's hit award-winning radio comedy Deborah Frances-White Rolls The Dice is to return to Radio 4 this autumn for a second series. Series one was the winner of Best Radio Comedy at the 2016 Writers Guild Awards.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 3rd August 2016Review: This Is Your Trial
My experience being a jury member at a comedy criminal trial.
Katie King, Legal Cheek, 7th June 2016New book on the art of stand up to launch at the Fringe
Two years ago, former Xfm DJ Marsha Shandur appeared here in the pages of Three Weeks reporting on interviews she'd been doing with comedians at the Festival as part of research for a new book on comedy. Shandur also used to host the hugely popular Marsha Meets comedy podcast, each featuring a different top comedy name, and it was through that venture that she met her co-author on this project, Deborah Frances-White.
Chris Cooke, ThreeWeeks, 17th August 2015I found my biological family
Deborah Frances-White talks about how she has built a comedy show around the topic of finding her birth mother via the internet.
Deborah Frances-White, British Comedy Guide, 2nd August 2014The Deborah Frances-White three minute interview
Comedian Deborah Frances-White was adopted as a new-born baby. This Edinburgh Festival fringe she presents the true story of her search for her biological family, Half a Can of Worms. A round the clock hunt for her birth mother, aunts, uncles, grandparents and brothers and sisters.
Martin Walker, Broadway Baby, 14th July 2014Interview: Deborah Frances-White
Comedian Deborah Frances-White was adopted when she was only ten days old. Until late 2012, she knew nothing about her birth family. Then she stumbled across some information that led her to embark on a round-the-clock treasure hunt, drawn into her past like a magnet.
The New Current, 8th July 2014Edinburgh Fringe preview: Half a Can of Worms
Comedian Deborah Frances-White was adopted as a newborn baby. In late 2012, she stumbled across information about her birth mother and went on a round the clock treasure hunt, drawn into her past like a magnet. This year she presents her true story Half a Can of Worms at the Fringe.
The Public Reviews, 3rd July 2014