Charlotte Jones (born 2 June 1968) is a British screenwriter and
playwright
A playwright or dramatist is a person who writes play (theatre), plays, which are a form of drama that primarily consists of dialogue between Character (arts), characters and is intended for Theatre, theatrical performance rather than just
Readin ...
.
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 ''
Humble Boy
''Humble Boy'' is a 2001 English play by Charlotte Jones (writer), Charlotte Jones. The play was presented in association with Matthew Byam Shaw and Anna Mackmin, and was first performed on the Cottesloe stage of the Royal National Theatre on 9 ...
''. Charlotte Jones wrote the book to the 2004-2006
West End musical, ''
The Woman in White'', in collaboration with the
David Zippel 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 theatre, West End and on Broadway theatre, Broad ...
.
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''The Woman in White''
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On television, Jones wrote episodes of ''
Always and Everyone'' and ''
The Palace
''The Palace'' is a British drama television series that aired on ITV (TV network), ITV in 2008. Produced by Company Pictures for the ITV network, it was created by Tom Grieves and follows a fictional British Royal Family in the aftermath of t ...
''. She created the
ITV period drama
A historical drama (also period drama, period piece or just period) is a dramatic work set in the past, usually used in the context of film and television, which presents history, historical events and characters with varying degrees of fiction s ...
''
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. In 2018, ''Humble Boy'' was revived at the
Orange Tree Theatre and ''The Meeting'' debuted at
Chichester Festival Theatre.
Jones will adapt Will Dean's ''Tuva Moodyson'' novels to television for Red Planet Pictures.
Rose Ayling-Ellis is attached to play the lead role.
Awards
She won the 2001
Susan Smith Blackburn Prize.
References
External links
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Radio Plays by Charlotte Jones
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Living people
1968 births
Place of birth missing (living people)
Alumni of Balliol College, Oxford
British women dramatists and playwrights
Critics' Circle Theatre Award winners
English dramatists and playwrights
English television writers
English screenwriters
British women television writers