Donna Franceschild (born November 22, 1953, in Illinois) is a British-based television writer and dramatist, originally from the US.
[1] She wrote the four-part series A Mug's Game (1996) and adapted Robert McLiam Wilson's novel Eureka Street for the BBC (Northern Ireland), which was first broadcast in September 1999.
[2] However, she "swam against the tide",[2] as she describes, by writing and producing a three-part drama The Key, about three generations of working class women in Glasgow.
In 2010, Franceschild adapted Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men for radio, starring David Tennant and Liam Brennan.
(1986), Songs for Stray Cats and Other Living Creatures (1985), Tap Dance on a Telephone Line (1981), Mutiny on the Ml, Diaries, The Soap Opera (1979), The Cleaning Lady.