Charlotte Keatley

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Biography

Charlotte Keatley was born in London on 5 January 1960. She studied drama at the University of Manchester and as a postgraduate at the University of Leeds. She has worked as a journalist for Performance magazine, the Yorkshire Post, the Financial Times and the BBC. She co-devised and performed in Dressing for Dinner, staged at the Theatre Workshop, Leeds, in 1983, and set up the performance art company, Royal Balle, in 1984.

Her first play, My Mother Said I Never Should, which she wrote in 1985, was first performed at the Contact Theatre, Manchester, in 1987, and won both the Royal Court/George Devine Award and the Manchester Evening News Theatre Award for Best New Play. The play was revised for a successful run at the Royal Court Theatre in 1989, and in 1990 she was nominated for the Laurence Olivier Most Promising Newcomer Award. My Mother Said I Never Should was published in the UK by Methuen in 1988, and has been studied as an A-level set text for a number of years. Waiting for Martin, a short monologue about the Falklands War, was produced by the English Shakespeare Company in 1987.

Charlotte Keatley was Judith E. Wilson Fellow in English at Cambridge University in 1989 and Writer in Residence for the New York Stage and Film Company in 1991. Later that year she co-directed the first production of Heathcote Williams' play Autogeddon at the Edinburgh Festival, where it was awarded an Edinburgh Festival Fringe First.

She wrote the screenplay to Falling Slowly, for Channel 4 television, and the children's drama, Badger, for Granada television. Her work for radio includes ten episodes of the BBC series Citizens, the play Is Green The Same For You (1989), and an adaptation of Mrs Gaskell's novel North and South.

in 2003, Charlotte Keatley was commissioned by the Royal Shakespeare Company to write an epic play set in Georgia and the Caucasus entitled All the Daughters Of War.

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Genres (in alphabetical order)

Drama, Screenplay

Bibliography

My Mother Said I Never Should   Methuen, 1988

Rage and Reason   (contributor)   Methuen, 1998

Read about books by Charlotte Keatley at encompassculture.com - the British Council's book database and global online book club

Buy books by Charlotte Keatley at Amazon.co.uk

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Prizes and awards

1987   Manchester Evening News Theatre Award for Best New Play   My Mother Said I Never Should

1987   Royal Court/George Devine Award   My Mother Said I Never Should

1990   Laurence Olivier Most Promising Newcomer Award   (nominated)

1991   Edinburgh Festival Fringe First   (for co-direction)   Autogeddon (by Heathcote Williams)

2003   EMMY   (co-winner for research)   Kids Behind Bars

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Contact information

Publisher (General enquiries) Methuen Publishing Ltd 8 Artillery Row London  SW1P 1RZ England Tel: +44 (0)20 7802 0018 Fax: +44 (0)20 7828 1244 E-mail: info@methuen.co.uk http://www.methuen.co.uk

Agent Rod Hall Agency 6th Floor, Fairgate House 74 New Oxford Street London  WC1A 1HB England Tel: +44 (0) 20 7079 7987 Fax: +44 (0) 20 7079 7988 E-mail: office@rodhallagency.com http://www.rodhallagency.com

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