Andrea Dunbar

Personal Info

Know For

Writing

Gender

Female

Birthday

1961-05-22 (29 years old)

Deathday

1990-12-20

Place of Birth

Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, UK

Andrea Dunbar

Biography

Andrea Dunbar (22 May 1961 – 20 December 1990) was an English playwright. She wrote The Arbor (1980) and Rita, Sue and Bob Too (1982), an autobiographical drama about the sexual adventures of teenage girls living in a run-down part of Bradford, West Yorkshire. She wrote most of the adaptation for the film Rita, Sue and Bob Too (1987).

Acting

1980

Profiles of Andrea Dunbar and Victoria Wood

as Self (The Arbor Playwright)

2010

The Arbor

as Self (archive footage)

Production

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