Helen Edmundson

Quick Facts

Full Name	Helen Edmundson
Occupation	Playwright
Date Of Birth	Feb 19, 1964(1964-02-19)
Age	60
Birthplace	Liverpool
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	England
Horoscope	Aquarius

Helen Edmundson Biography

Helen Edmundson is one of the most popular and richest Playwright who was born on February 19, 1964 in Liverpool, England, United Kingdom. Edmundson was born 1964 in Liverpool. Her childhood was spent mainly on the Wirral, and Chester. Edmundson studied drama at Manchester University. Edmundson began her studies at Manchester University and acted for Red Stockings, a women’s agit-prop troupe. She also wrote the 1988 musical comedy Ladies in the Lift. This was her first attempt at writing for the stage. She acted in all of northwest England after leaving Red Stockings.

Edmundson’s play Mother Teresa Is Dead was performed at the Royal Court Theatre in 2002. Her adaptation of Gone to Earth, which she had written and performed at the Lyric Hammersmith in 2004, was presented by Shared Experience. It was also on tour. The TMA Award was nominated. Edmundson’s adaptation Coram Boy was first performed at the National Theatre in November

2005. It starred Olivier Award-winner Bertie Carvel, and Tony Award nominee Paul Ritter. Edmundson also received a Time Out Award. She was also nominated to an Olivier Award. A year later, the play was revived at the same venue with Carvel again. Her version of Orestes was performed at the Tricycle Theatre in London with Shared Experience in 2006. In 2007, Coram Boy was resurrected at Broadway’s Imperial Theatre. It starred Uzo Aduba, Emmy Award winner, and Jan Maxwell. The Tony Award nominee received six nominations. Edmundson modified her War and Peace adaptation in 2008 and made it a two-part play. This production was then staged by Shared Experience and Nottingham Playhouse, before going on tour. Edmundson received an Olivier Award nomination for Best New Musical. Edmundson’s adaptation Life Is a Dream, starring Dominic West, was staged at the Donmar Warehouse in 2009.

In 2010, Edmundson’s musical adaptation of Swallows and Amazons was first produced at the Bristol Old Vic, directed by Tony Award-winner Tom Morris. The next year, the show transferred to the Vaudeville Theatre; the play was nominated for an Evening Standard Theatre Award. Edmundson took part in the Bush Theatre’s 2011 project Sixty-Six Books, for which artists wrote a piece based upon a book of the King James Bible; Edmundson wrote a piece entitled In the night, a promise, based on Zephaniah. The same year, her adaptation of Coram Boy was revived at the Bristol Old Vic. In 2012, her play about Juana Inés de la Cruz, The Heresy of Love, was produced by the Royal Shakespeare Company at the Swan Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon. The same year, Edmundson’s adaptation of Swallows and Amazons was revived for a national tour. Also in 2012, Edmundson’s play Mary Shelley was produced on a nationwide tour, including the Tricycle Theatre and the Liverpool Playhouse, by Shared Experience. In 2013, her adaptation of Mephisto was produced at the Altonaer Theater in Hamburg. In 2014, Edmundson’s adaptation of the novel Thérèse Raquin was produced at the Theatre Royal, Bath, starring Olivier Award-winners Alison Steadman and Desmond Barrit. In 2015, The Heresy of Love was revived for a run at Shakespeare’s Globe. Edmundson’s adaptation of Thérèse Raquin was produced by Roundabout Theatre Company at Studio 54 on Broadway from 2015 to 2016, starring Academy Award-nominee Keira Knightley and Tony Award-winner Judith Light; the play was nominated for Outstanding New Broadway Play at the 2016 Outer Critics Circle Awards. Simultaneously, the RSC premiered her play Queen Anne in Stratford. In 2017, the RSC produced Queen Anne at the Theatre Royal Haymarket, starring Golden Globe-winner Romola Garai. From April to August 2019, Edmundson’s adaptation of Small Island was produced at the National Theatre, directed by its artistic director, Olivier Award-nominee Rufus Norris. The Guardian called the play one of the top two theatre shows of 2019.

Edmundson has been a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature since 2015.

Edmundson has made two short films for television. One Day was broadcast on BBC Two in July 1991 and Stella on Channel 4. She wrote two episodes of ITV drama The Suspicions of Mr Whicher. Beyond the Pale, and The Ties that Bind. They starred BAFTA Award-winners Tim Pigott Smith and Paddy Considine. Edmundson’s feature-length adaptation, An Inspector Calls, which starred BAFTA Award-winners Miranda Richardson and David Thewlis, was broadcast on BBC One in September 2015. It won the 2016 Broadcasting Press Guild Award and was nominated to two British Academy Television Craft Awards. Edmundson directed the Emmy Award-nominee Garth Davis’ Mary Magdalene in 2018, and Joaquin Phoenix and Rooney Mara were Academy Award nominees. She is currently adapting The Awkward age, which will be broadcast by BBC.

Helen Edmundson Net Worth

Helen Edmundson is one of the richest Playwright from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Helen Edmundson 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Helen Edmundson, FRSL (born 1964), is a British screenwriter and playwright. She has received critical acclaim and awards for both her original writing and her adaptations of literary classics for stage and screen.

Edmundson’s first play, Flying, was performed at the National Theatre Studio back in 1990. Her adaptation of Anna Karenina by Shared Experience won a Time Out Award in 1992 and a TMA Award. The production was toured both nationally and internationally. Edmundson’s original play, The Clearing, won the John Whiting award in 1993. It was presented at the Bush Theatre. Her adaptation of The Mill on the Floss, which she had written, was also staged by Shared Experience in 1994. It toured nationally and internationally. Edmundson received a Time Out Award and a Time Out Award. Shared Experience presented her adaptation of War and Peace at National Theatre. Anne-Marie Duff, a BAFTA Award nominee, was the star of the production. The play was nominated to the Writers’ Guild Award.

Edmundson has adapted numerous literary classics for BBC Radio 4, including The Voyage Out in 2006, The Mayor of Casterbridge in 2008, Anna of the Five Towns in 2011 and Sense and Sensibility in 2013.

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