Sharman Macdonald

Writer

Sharman Macdonald

Biography

Sharman Macdonald gave up acting to write. Her plays include the award-winning When I Was A Girl I Used to Scream and Shout, The Brave, When We Were Women, All Things Nice, Shades, The Winter Guest, Sea Urchins, After Juliet, The Girl With Red Hair and Broken Hallelujah. She has written three pieces for radio: Sea Urchins, Gladly My Cross-Eyed Bear and Soft Fall the Sounds of Eden. Her two novels are The Beast and Night Night. She’s written one opera libretto called Hey Persephone! of which she’s inordinately proud because she didn’t think she could do it. Deirdre Gribbin wrote the music. Her screenplays include Wild Flowers, The Winter Guest and The Edge of Love.

Credits

Radio

Production Company Notes
GLADLY MY CROSS EYED BEAR
SOFT FALL THE SOUNDS OF EDEN
SEA URCHINS

Opera

Production Company Notes
HEY PERSEPHONE!
1998
Almeida Opera / Aldeburgh Festival

Director: Sean Aita
Runner-up of the Meyer-Whitworth award 2003

Theatre

Production Company Notes
LU LAH LU LAH
2010
The Cheltenham Ladies' College

Commission

BROKEN HALLELUJAH
2006
Shell Connections
THE GIRL WITH RED HAIR
2005
Bush Theatre & Royal Lyceum
AFTER JULIET
1999
National Theare Comedians
SEA URCHINS
1998
The Tron, Glasgow

Directed by Irina Brown
Also a radio play

BORDERS OF PARADISE
1995
Watford Palace Theatre

Directed by Lou Stein
Nominated for the Best Regional Play Award at the 1995 Writer’s Guild Awards

THE WINTER GUEST
1995
West Yorkshire Playhouse, then the Almeida Theatre

Commissioned by Alan Rickman and
Ruby Wax’s company Raw Produce in 1990
Directed by Alan Rickman

SHADES
1992
The Albery

Directed by Simon Callow
With Pauline Collins, then Patricia Hodge

ALL THINGS NICE
1991
Royal Court Theatre

Commissioned by English Stage Co.
Directed by Max Stafford-Clark

WHEN WE WERE WOMEN
1988
Cottesloe Theatre

Later taken to 1989 Edinburgh Festival

THE BRAVE
1988
Bush Theatre

Commission

WHEN I WAS A GIRL I USED TO SCREAM AND SHOUT
1984
Bush Theatre, then Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh and the Whitehall Theatre

Evening Standard Award for Most Promising Playwright

Film

Production Company Notes
THE EDGE OF LOVE
2009
Capitol Films
THE WINTER GUEST
1997

adapted from the play
Director: Alan Rickman

Other

Production Company Notes
THE MUSIC LESSON
1989
BBC/2 Dancelines

Directed by Peter Mumford

Television

Production Company Notes
Wild Flowers
1989
Chanel Four FIlm

Staring Beatie Edney

Sound on Film
1995 – 2001
Arts Council of England

1 episode (1997)

Sharman Macdonald
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