Penny Woolcock

Quick Facts

Full Name	Penny Woolcock
Occupation	Screenwriter
Date Of Birth	Jan 1, 1950(1950-01-01)
Age	74
Birthplace	Buenos Aires
Country	Argentina
Horoscope	Capricorn

Penny Woolcock Biography

Penny Woolcock is one of the most popular and richest Screenwriter who was born on January 1, 1950 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Penny Woolcock (born 1 January 1950) is a British film director, opera director and screenwriter.

Woolcock’s operas include a staging of John Adams’ Doctor Atomic which she directed for Metropolitan Opera’s season 2008-2009. She has previously directed John Adams’ The Death of Klinghoffer as an feature film. In 2014 the staged production of the opera by Bizet The Pearl Fishers at English National Opera in London (English translation) Then she staged the highly popular French rendition in The Metropolitan Opera in January 2016.

In 2014, she directed a documentary for Channel 4 called Going to the Dogs, investigating inner city dog fighting in the UK. She is currently the executive director of Ackley Bridge, a television series broadcast on Channel 4.

In 2016, she was invited by Streetwise Opera to direct a production of the Bach St Matthew Passion, performed predominantly by homeless people. Sir James MacMillan composed a new finale for the occasion, which was broadcast on BBC4 on Sunday 27 March 2016.

Her first film as a director and writer is Women in Tropical Places in 1989. Since then, she has directed and written a number of feature and documentary films for both screen and television. She was the director and adapted Macbeth on the Estate in 1997. Like her previous production Shakespeare on the Estate (made by Michael Bogdanov), African-Caribbean residents living in towers located in Ladywood, Birmingham were revealed to have a deep attraction to Shakespearean language and a great talent in adapting Shakespeare relevant to modern urban life.

Penny Woolcock Net Worth

Penny Woolcock is one of the richest Screenwriter from Argentina. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Penny Woolcock 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Penny Woolcock was born in Argentina and was raised within Montevideo as well as Buenos Aires. She was arrested in 1967. established an unorthodox theatre group and was taken into custody. Parents wanted to transfer her to Europe to be safe, but she went to Spain with a member of the theatre group. They was blessed with a child in Barcelona.

In 1970, she moved in 1970 to England in the year 1970 as a single mom. She worked in factories and other jobs. In her 30s, she took a class in a filmmakers’ workshop, borrowed equipment for filmmaking and then offered the film for the BBC. She was later appointed as a director and editor for the current affairs program in Newcastle and later moved on to feature filmmaking.

In 2013, Woolcock released a new documentary, Storyville: From the Sea to the Land Beyond – Britain’s Coast on Film, which was broadcast on the BBC. Based on archive movie footage from early cinematography to recent times it illustrated working-class life in the 20th century.

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Penny Ranked on the list of most popular Screenwriter. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Argentina. Penny Woolcock celebrates birthday on January 1 of every year.