Helen Edmundson

Helen Edmundson’s Small Island, adapted from the novel of the same name by Andrea Levy, was first staged at the National Theatre in 2019. Her other plays include Coram Boy (Olivier nomination and Time Out Award) and War and Peaceat the National and in New York; Queen Anne (also in the West End) and The Heresy of Love (also at Shakespeare’s Globe) for the RSC; The Clearing (John Whiting Award) at The Bush; Mother Teresa is Dead at the Royal Court; and Mary Shelley at the Tricycle and on tour for Shared Experience. Musical adaptations include Swallows and Amazons (co-writer) at Bristol Old Vic, in the West End and on tour. Film and TV includes An Inspector Calls (PGA Award), Mary Magdalene, The Suspicions of Mr Wicher, the 8-part MGM+ drama Belgravia: The Next Chapter, and three seasons of Dalgliesh for Acorn. She is a recipient of the Windham Campbell Literature Prize.