Francesca McBride
Acting
Biography
A playful Shakespeare nerd, Francesca is a vibrant and friendly young queer British actor. After training at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, they completed an MA at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. Francesca particularly enjoys the challenge of balancing multiple projects simultaneously - think rep theatre style! Her work is nuanced, generous, and hopeful, and she brings intelligence and energy to the productions she works on. They're Artistic Director for left eddy stories, and a Young Trustee for National Youth Theatre. She previously trained with Chichester Festival Youth Theatre and Hampshire Youth Theatre.
Known For
Brace yourselves - the new kids are here. Five talented black scholarship students, and an elite private school with a reputation problem. One of them will have to change...
Boarders
Flesh-eating baby-boomers get a taste for teenagers in Ben Wheatley's darkly comic, outlandishly gory, zombie-horror satire.
Generation Z
In Waves is a surreal, rural, psychological drama following Eden, a teenage girl who runs away from home after being plagued by dreams about her father's disappearance at sea.
In Waves
Following the death of his best friend, 17-year-old Shelby struggles to readjust back into life at boarding school until popular girl Lilibet decides to take him under her wing. With the aid of her reckless and wealthy group of friends, Shelby finds himself reintroduced to a fast moving world of parties, sex and drugs – but with life after school quickly approaching and his unresolved grief threatening to pull him under, Shelby finds himself dealing with a lot more than he bargained for.
Sticky Toffee Pudding
A school term, a pair of forgotten joggers, a line from Macbeth - in the ordinary spaces of uniformed days, one student starts to notice a quiet disconnect between who they are and who they're expected to be.
Lady Macbeth Was Never a Girl
The film tells the story of sisters Sarah and Elizabeth, whose lives are forever changed by Elizabeth's mysterious pregnancy and its aftermath, leading to a poignant revelation years later that tests the depths of their bond and resilience
Sub Rosa
A beautifully thoughtful coming-of-age short, set in the Scottish countryside, exploring identity, grief, and chosen connection, through the eyes of a teenager navigating loss and identity.