Debbie Isitt (born 1965 or 1966) is an English comic writer, film director, screenwriter, composer, lyricist and performer.
[3] Prior to that, she wrote BAFTA award-winning television adaptation of Jacqueline Wilson's book, The Illustrated Mum,[4] the stage play The Woman Who Cooked Her Husband, and the feature films Nasty Neighbours[5] and Confetti.
Earlier in her career, just after her graduation, she joined the Cambridge Experimental Theatre company and toured Europe for a year performing Shakespeare.
She then founded the Snarling Beasties company and spent the next 15 years writing, directing and performing in plays they took around the world.
On 21 March 2023, it was announced that I Should Be So Lucky, a jukebox musical making use of the songs by Stock Aitken Waterman, was due to open later in the year at the Manchester Opera House and then proceed on a UK tour.
In 2023, Warwick University awarded Isitt an honorary doctorate for her work in championing the creative potential of the West Midlands.
[24] The pair play a couple of naturists planning their wedding, and claim they were misled about the amount of nudity involved in the film.
[25] Webb said in an interview that Isitt had told them their genitals would all be pixelated in the final film, and was not aware until the screening that this was not the case.
[26][27] Colman and Webb started legal proceedings against the filmmaker, but these were eventually abandoned when the actors concluded it was too late and the lengthy process would prevent them from "pretending it didn't happen".