Lucy Kirkwood

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Lucy Kirkwood (* 1984 in London- Leytonstone) is an English dramaturge and screenwriter . She is a member of the Royal Society of Literature .

education

Kirkwood grew up in the London borough of East London. She completed her degree in English literature at the University of Edinburgh , which she graduated in 2007. There she was also engaged in the Edinburgh University Theater Company, which led to a performance of her play Grady Hot Potato at the Bedlam Theater in 2005 .

theatre

Kirkwood was a resident writer for the theater company Clean Break. She wrote other plays like first it was empty without a heart, but now it's all over again and Beauty and the Beast . In 2013 she won the Critics' Circle Theater Award with Chimerica . The children were premiered in 2016 in the Royal Court Theater , Mosquitos in 2017 in the Royal National Theater , the German premiere took place in 2018 in the Staatstheater Kassel .

watch TV

Immediately after completing her studies, she worked as a writer on the series Skins - Hautnah . She developed the series The Smoke , which aired in 2014, and also wrote the scripts.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Lucy Kirkwood at Rowohlt Theaterverlag
  2. Alice Jones: The dramaturge Lucy Kirkwood. The Independent, December 27, 2008, accessed November 19, 2018 .
  3. Lucy Kirkwood in the Internet Movie Database (English)