Helen Edmundson was born on 1964 and is a British playwright, screenwriter and producer.
12 Facts About Helen Edmundson
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Helen Edmundson has won awards and critical acclaim both for her original writing and for her adaptations of various literary classics for the stage and screen.
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In 1994, her adaptation of The Mill on the Floss was produced by Shared Experience, again touring nationally and internationally; Helen Edmundson won a Time Out Award for The Clearing and The Mill on the Floss.
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In 2008, Helen Edmundson amended her adaptation of War and Peace, turning it into a two-part play; this production was staged by Shared Experience and Nottingham Playhouse before touring.
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In 2009, Helen Edmundson's adaptation of Life Is a Dream was produced at the Donmar Warehouse, starring BAFTA Award-winner Dominic West.
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Helen 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; Helen Edmundson wrote a piece entitled In the night, a promise, based on Zephaniah.
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Helen Edmundson has written two short films for television: One Day, broadcast on BBC Two in July 1991, and Stella for Channel 4.
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In 2018, Helen Edmundson wrote the film Mary Magdalene, which was directed by Emmy Award-nominee Garth Davis and starred Academy Award-nominees Rooney Mara and Joaquin Phoenix.
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Helen Edmundson is adapting the novel The Awkward Age, to be broadcast by the BBC.
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Helen Edmundson wrote the first two series of crime drama Dalgliesh, executive producing the second.
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Helen 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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Helen Edmundson has been a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature since 2015.