Welcome to the website of Debbie Cannon, actor and writer. On this site you can find out more about my acting work, including my award-winning solo performance play Green Knight and my new solo plays The Remarkable Deliverances of Alice Thornton and Flora Macdonald and Zombies. You can also read all about my writing, which includes poetry, drama, and children’s fiction.
News!
- I’m over the moon to have been shortlisted for the Kelpies Prize for Writing 2025! You can read more about the prize and the other brilliant shortlisted authors here.
Upcoming Performances –
- The Remarkable Deliverances of Alice Thornton will be part of the Helmsley Literary Festival on 13 September 2025. You can buy tickets now from here.
- I’ll be performing Green Knight at the Biggar Corn Exchange as part of Biggar little Festival on Friday 24th October at 7:30 pm. Tickets are on sale here.
- I’m currently planning performances of Flora Macdonald and Zombies, Green Knight, and The Remarkable Deliverances of Alice Thornton for 2025.
What I’ve been up to recently –
- Flora Macdonald and Zombies had its first two full performances at the brilliant Cymera Festival on 7-8 June, followed by runs at Buxton Fringe from 9-11 July and at the Scottish Storytelling Centre for Edinburgh Fringe from 1-15th August! Thank you to all of our wonderful audiences.
- I was also part of the cast for Strawmoddie’s production of Feet at Clay at Cymera.
- The Remarkable Deliverances of Alice Thornton was at Biggar little Festival on 19 October, and at the Scottish Storytelling Centre on 7 November 2024. Thank you to the lovely audiences at both venues!
- In September 2024, I performed a first, script-in-hand sharing of a new show, Flora Macdonald and Zombies, at Dundee Fringe.
- In July 2024, I performed Green Knight at Leeds International Medieval Congress and Durham Fringe, and The Remarkable Deliverances of Alice Thornton at the North Yorkshire County Record Office in Northallerton, and Buxton Fringe. Thank you so much to all of the wonderful audiences who came to see the shows!
- I returned in the role of Footnote/Narrator for Strawmoddie’s productions of Men At Arms at Cymera Festival in Edinburgh, from 30th May to 2nd June 2024, and of Hogfather at the Pleasance in Edinburgh from 8th to 10th December 2023 – we had a wonderful time performing to brilliant audiences.
- I performed my solo show The Remarkable Deliverances of Alice Thornton at Durham Cathedral in October 2023, as part of a series of events run by the Alice Thornton’s Books project.
- I had a brilliant time performing as Footnote in Strawmoddie’s production of Guard, Guards! at Cymera Festival – you can read a review at https://corrblimey.uk/2023/06/04/terry-pratchetts-guards-guards-pleasance-theatre/.
- I had a wonderful run of my award-winning solo show, Green Knight, at Brighton Fringe in May 2023 with Sweet Venues, at the Scottish Storytelling Centre in the 2022 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, and also performed at the 2022 Dundee Fringe. You can read our reviews and find out more on the Green Knight web-page.
- Recording audio for Music for First Contact, a choose-your-own-adventure space opera by the brilliant Post Coal Prom Queen at the 2022 Hidden Door Festival.
- Working on a recording of an audio book for Audible.
- Performing a short audio drama, Spiked, by the always excellent Ben Blow of Reality Funds Theatre, for Shoreline of Infinity at the 2022 Cymera Festival.
- I was one of the team of actors for the brilliant Tandem Writing Collective in Tandem at the Traverse in April 2022.
- I was privileged to read as the voice of Iona McGregor for the Lavender Menace/LGBT Health and Wellbeing event, Iona McGregor: Friends in Conversation About Her Life and Work.
- In early February 2022 I worked with the brilliant Jen McGregor and a wonderful team on a 10 minute work-in-progress film of Jen’s play Star Cuddie.
- In January 2022, I was awarded free space for a week at Summerhall as part of their Summerhall Space programme – I used the time to do very early development on a new solo piece called Explorers, about OCD and parenting.
- In 2022, I was selected for the Playwrights’ Studio Scotland mentoring programme. I was supported by Playwrights’ Studio to complete the draft of a new play, The Immortal History of Lucy Lightstep.
- I carried out some script-writing work for Middling Culture working alongside other writers to create character voices for a digital seventeenth century room.
- Some voiceover work with the excellent Canongate Studios.
- Audio drama work for Citadel Arts Group’s Leithers One Family project in June 2021 – you can hear the audio plays here.
- In June 2021 I re-joined Shoreline of Infinity’s Inifitesimals for the latest Zom play instalment of the Flux Diaries at Cymera Festival.
- Also in June 2021 I wrote and recorded an episode of collaborative filmed drama series The End. You can watch my episode, You Don’t Own Me, and all the other episodes from brilliant Scottish writers, actors and directors, here.
- In May 2021 I did a one-off performance of Green Knight for the students of the brilliant Edinburgh Acting School.
- In April and May 2021 I did a fantastic course with Christopher Edge and Writers & Artists on middle grade fiction
- Developing ideas for a new play and editing my own middle grade fiction
I’m hoping to add some news on upcoming performances here soon. In the meantime, Three Voices, three short filmed monologues written for Buxton Fringe 2020, are available online and you can watch them here.
Debbie Cannon 