17 Facts About Alice Birch

Alice Birch was born on 1986 and is a British playwright and screenwriter.

At 18, Alice Birch joined the Royal Court Theatre's young writers programme and spent a three-month unpaid internship in Los Angeles working for the film production company BenderSpink.

In 2010, Alice Birch participated in 24 Hour Plays at the Old Vic in which writers, directors, actors, and other creatives have 24 hours to create a new play before it is performed.

Alice Birch's play was called And Then There Were Four Little Beats of Four Little Hearts on the Edge of the World.

Alice Birch's first performed full-length play was Many Moons, which premiered in 2011 at Theatre 503 under the direction of Derek Bond.

Little Light is one of Alice Birch's first plays, though it was not performed until 2015 when it premiered at the Orange Tree Theatre.

The play was inspired by Valerie Solanas' SCUM Manifesto, though Alice Birch took inspiration more from the power behind Solanas' words than from the messages of that work.

In 2015, Alice Birch developed the play We Want You to Watch with the feminist theatre company RashDash.

In 2016, Alice Birch made her screenwriting debut with the film Lady Macbeth, based on Nikolai Leskov's novel Lady Macbeth Of The Mtsensk District.

Alice Birch made several changes from the novel, including setting the film in rural England.

Alice Birch won a 2017 British Independent Film Award for best screenplay for Lady Macbeth.

Alice Birch was nominated for a BAFTA and for Best Debut Screenwriter at the British Independent Film Awards for Lady Macbeth.

Alice Birch was interested in exploring the effects of having a mother who commits suicide and whether trauma can be passed on through DNA.

In 2018, Alice Birch adapted Marguerite Duras' novella La Maladie de la Mort for the stage.

Alice Birch adapted Sally Rooney's novel Normal People for television with Rooney herself and writer Mark O'Rowe.

In 2022, The Wonder, for which Alice Birch co-wrote the screenplay with Sebastian Lelio and Emma Donoghue, adapted from Donoghue's novel of the same name, premiered.

Alice Birch adapted Federico Garcia Lorca's 1936 play, The House of Bernarda Alba, for the English stage, centring the character Bernarda's daughters.