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Donna Franceschild is a British-based television writer and dramatist, originally from the US. She has written many plays and television shows, but her best known work is probably the BBC series ''Takin' Over the Asylum''. ==Career== She came to public attention as the writer of ''Takin' Over the Asylum'' a six-part series for BBC television about a hospital radio station in a psychiatric hospital. It was first broadcast in 1994 and starred Ken Stott and David Tennant. As well as the BAFTA for Best Drama Serial for the year, the series won the 1995 Mental Health Media Award. Franceschild won a second MHM award in 2001 for the film ''Donovan Quick''.〔(Mental Health Media Awards 2006 | Keynote Speaker & Judges )〕 She wrote the four-part series ''A Mug's Game'' (1996), and adapted Robert McLiam Wilson's novel ''Eureka Street'' for BBC television (Northern Ireland), which was first broadcast in September 1999. By the 2000s, political drama was seen as anachronistic.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Interview with Donna Franceschild, writer of TV's The Key )〕 However, she "swam against the tide",〔 as she describes, by writing and producing a three-part drama ''The Key'', about three generations of working class women in Glasgow. She said "We live in cynical times and it's easy to become jaded by the machinations of power and politics. I wrote ''The Key'' to try and remind us that, though we are shaped by our history, sometimes the reverse is also true."〔(【引用サイトリンク】work=BBC - Press Office )〕 She has continuously supported the cause of raising awareness and understanding of mental health issues, and has served on the jury of the Mental Health Media awards since 1996. Her 2008 play, ''Lost in Plain Sight'', charted one young man’s recovery from a suicide attempt. In 2010, Franceschild adapted Steinbeck's ''Of Mice and Men'' for radio, starring David Tennant and Liam Brennan. Among recent projects are two new plays for Radio Four and a commission to write a single television drama for Channel Four.〔(Grapevine Project - Patrons ) 〕 She is Creative Writing Fellow, Universities of Glasgow and Strathclyde.〔(Frost's Scottish Who's Who )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Donna Franceschild」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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