Biography
Helen Edmundson was born in Liverpool in 1964 and studied drama at the University of Manchester. After early work as an actor she became known for stage versions of major novels for the company Shared Experience, including Anna Karenina (1992), The Mill on the Floss (1994) and War and Peace (1996). Her play The Clearing won the John Whiting Award. Her adaptation of Coram Boy opened at the National Theatre in 2005 and on Broadway in 2007. Her other works include Queen Anne (2015) and Small Island (2019), and in 2015 she received the Windham-Campbell Prize for drama. For the musical Zorro she co-wrote the book with Stephen Clark, based on Isabel Allende's novel; it was staged in London's West End in 2008.
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