Kay started her career by forming the Yorkshire Theatre Company with two friends from Bretton Hall. They began touring plays which Kay had written. Kay was then offered the part of Dr. Baker in 'The Practice', made by Granada TV. She followed this with a part as a policewoman in the Granada program 'Albion Market', and she ended up as their script editor until the show ended. Scriptwriter on 'Brookside' for C4 in 1989 before going on to create series' such as 'Families', 'Just Us' and the hit drama 'Band of Gold'. In 1995 Kay wrote the very popular series 'Playing the Field' and an adaptation of 'Jane Eyre' before creating and writing 'Fat Friends', 'Between the Sheets' and the recent 'The Chase'. Kay has also written scripts for three feature films; 'Girls' Night' with Brenda Blethyn and Julie Walters, 'Fanny and Elvis' with Ray Winstone and Kerry Fox, 'A Good Thief' for Granada. In 1998 Kay was awarded the Dennis Potter Award at the Baftas. Kay and her creative team at Rollem Productions are currently in development on a number of new television and theatre projects.

Deborah Moggach wrote the BAFTA-nominated screenplay for the recent Working Title movie of 'Pride and Prejudice', starring Keira Knightley, Matthew McFadden, Donald Sutherland and Judi Dench. She also received the Writers Guild Award for Best Adapted TV Serial for 'Goggle-Eyes'. She has adapted several of her own novels for TV, including 'Close Relations', 'Final Demand', 'To Have and To Hold', 'Stolen' and 'Seesaw', and other credits include the BBC adaptation of Nancy Mitford's 'Love in a Cold Climate'. She has just adapted ‘The Diary of Anne Frank’ for the BBC. Her novel 'Tulip Fever' was bought by Steven Spielberg’s Dreamworks and her adaptation of her novel 'These Foolish Things', about outsourcing the elderly to India, is due to be filmed this year.