Hettie MacDonald is a British

United Kingdom

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 director who won a Grand Prix award, an International Jury Award - Honorable Mention and a People's Choice Award for her work on the film Beautiful Thing. She has also directed for television and the stage.

MacDonald studied English at Bristol University before training as a director at the Royal Court Theatre

Royal Court Theatre

The Royal Court Theatre is a non-commercial theatre on Sloane Square, in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. It is noted for its contributions to modern theatre...

. She was formerly associate director at the Wolsey Theatre

New Wolsey Theatre

A 400-seat theatre in the heart of Ipswich, Suffolk's county town, The was established in 2000, building on the foundations of the regional repertory company that had opened the theatre in the late 1970s....

, Ipswich.

TV

• Casualty
  Casualty (TV series)
  Casualty, stylised as Casual+y, is a British weekly television show broadcast on BBC One, and the longest-running emergency medical drama television series in the world. Created by Jeremy Brock and Paul Unwin, it was first broadcast on 6 September 1986, and transmitted in the UK on BBC One. The...
  
  
  • "Whatever It Takes" (1997)
  • "What Friends Are For" (1997)
• The Fixer
  The Fixer (TV series)
  The Fixer is a British drama television series, produced by Kudos for ITV. Set in modern Britain, it follows the life of an ex-British Special Forces soldier arrested by police after he killed his aunt and uncle following his discharge from the military...
  
  
  • Episodes 5 and 6 of Season One
• In a Land of Plenty (2001)
• Servants
  • Episodes 4 to 6 (2003)
• Poirot
  Agatha Christie's Poirot
  Agatha Christie's Poirot is a British television drama that has aired on ITV since 1989. It stars David Suchet as Agatha Christie's fictional detective Hercule Poirot. It was originally made by LWT and is now made by ITV Studios...
  
  
  • "The Mystery of the Blue Train" (2005)
• Banglatown Banquet (2006)
• Doctor Who
  Doctor Who
  Doctor Who is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC. The programme depicts the adventures of a time-travelling humanoid alien known as the Doctor who explores the universe in a sentient time machine called the TARDIS that flies through time and space, whose exterior...
  
  
  • "Blink
    Blink (Doctor Who)
    "Blink" is the 10th episode of the third series of the new production of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It was first broadcast on 9 June 2007, and is the only episode in the 2007 series written by Steven Moffat; the episode is based on a previous short story written by...
    
    " (2007)
• White Girl
  White Girl
  White Girl is a 2008, BAFTA Award-winning BBC film produced by Abi Morgan, made as part of the BBC's White Season and portrays a white family who move from an area of Leeds that has predominantly White British inhabitants to an area of Bradford composed of inhabitants of South Asian heritage.The...
  
  (2008)
• Wallander (2010)
• Law and Order: UK (2010)

Theatre

• On Insomnia and Midnight (2006 - Royal Court)
• M.A.D. (2004 - Bush Theatre
  Bush Theatre
  The Bush Theatre is based in Shepherd's Bush, in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham. It was established in 1972 above The Bush public house by Brian McDermott, and has since become one of the most celebrated new writing theatres in the world. An intimate venue renowned for its close-up...
  
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• Top Girls
  Top Girls
  Top Girls is a 1982 play by Caryl Churchill. It is about a woman named Marlene, a career-driven woman who is employed at the 'Top Girls' employment agency. The play examines issues of gender discrimination present in the Thatcherite society that it is set in...
  
  (2002 - Citizens Theatre)
• She Stoops To Conquer
  She Stoops to Conquer
  She Stoops to Conquer is a comedy by the Irish author Oliver Goldsmith, son of an Anglo-Irish vicar, first performed in London in 1773. The play is a great favourite for study by English literature and theatre classes in Britain and the United States. It is one of the few plays from the 18th...
  
  (2002 - Theatre Royal, Margate)
• The Storm (1998 - Almeida Theatre
  Almeida Theatre
  The Almeida Theatre, opened in 1980, is a 325 seat studio theatre with an international reputation which takes its name from the street in which it is located, off Upper Street, in the London Borough of Islington. The theatre produces a diverse range of drama and holds an annual summer festival of...
  
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• Hey Persephone! (1998 - Aldeburgh Festival
  Aldeburgh Festival
  The Aldeburgh Festival is an English arts festival devoted mainly to classical music. It takes place each June in the Aldeburgh area of Suffolk, centred on the main concert hall at Snape Maltings...
  
  / Almeida Theatre)
• The Northern Fox (1997 - Ambassadors Theatre)

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