Charlotte Jones is a British

actress An actor or actress is a person who portrays a character in a performance. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. The analogous Greek term is (), li ...

, screenwriter and

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Career

Her first play ''

Airswimming {{one source, date=July 2011 ''Airswimming'' is the first play written by Charlotte Jones. Its 1997 premiere at the Battersea Arts Centre was directed by Anna Mackmin (making her debut as a director) and featured Rosie Cavaliero Rosalind Ceci ...

'' debuted in 1997 at the

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. Her other plays include ''

In Flame Charlotte Jones is a British actress, screenwriter and playwright. Career Her first play '' Airswimming'' debuted in 1997 at the Battersea Arts Centre in London. Her other plays include ''In Flame'', ''The Dark'', ''The Lightning Play'', and ...

'', ''The Dark'', ''The Lightning Play'', and '' Humble Boy''. Charlotte Jones wrote the book to the 2004-2006 West End musical, '' The Woman in White'', in collaboration with the

David Zippel David Joel Zippel (born May 17, 1954) is an American musical theatre lyricist, director, and producer. Early life and education Zippel was born and raised in Easton, Pennsylvania in the Lehigh Valley region of eastern Pennsylvania. Falling in lo ...

and

Andrew Lloyd Webber Andrew Lloyd Webber, Baron Lloyd-Webber (born 22 March 1948), is an English composer and impresario of musical theatre. Several of his musicals have run for more than a decade both in the West End and on Broadway. He has composed 21 musical ...

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''The Woman in White''
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thisistheatre.com, accessed 17 March 2016 She has created the ITV

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'' The Halcyon''. It is set in 1940 and focuses on a five-star hotel at the centre of London Society and a world at war. The series was first announced on 3 December 2015, before the official cast was announced on 4 April 2016, with Steven Mackintosh and Olivia Williams playing major roles. The series was cancelled after one series.

Awards

She won the 2001 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize.

References

External links

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Radio Plays by Charlotte Jones
Living people 1968 births Place of birth missing (living people) Alumni of Balliol College, Oxford British television writers British women dramatists and playwrights Critics' Circle Theatre Award winners English dramatists and playwrights English television writers English screenwriters British women television writers {{UK-writer-stub