Louise Mary Page (7 March 1955 – 30 May 2020) was a British
playwright
A playwright or dramatist is a person who writes plays.
Etymology
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.
Life
Page was born on 7 March 1955 in London.
Page studied at University College Cardiff (now
Cardiff University
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) and at the
University of Birmingham
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.
She was commissioned by the
Birmingham Arts Lab, and was
Yorkshire Television Fellow at
Sheffield University. She was Royal literary Fellow at Leeds Trinity University 2003–04,
Edge Hill University, and the Huddersfield University, 2007–2009.
Page was the first Fellow to be placed at the University of Huddersfield; she made a significant contribution to the academic development of many students, particularly in health and social care education, drawing on her personal experience of health and ill-health
Page's legacy was a well-established fellowship which has been continuous since. During her time at Huddersfield her play ''Salonika'' was produced at the Leeds Playhouse and she led a creative writing masterclass at the Huddersfield Literary Festival in 2008.
After Huddersfield she continued to collaborate with the Fellowship coordinator there to produce a Reflective Practice textbook, using a creative, narrative style.
With her husband, Christopher Hawes, Page ran Words4work.
Page died of cancer on 30 May 2020, aged 65.
Awards
* 1977 International Student Playscript Award for ''Lucy''.
* 1982
George Devine Award
George Alexander Cassady Devine (20 November 1910 – 20 January 1966) was an English theatrical manager, director, teacher, and actor based in London from the early 1930s until his death. He also worked in TV and film.
Early life and education
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, for ''Salonika''.
* 1985 J.T. Grein Award
Works
*''Glasshouse'', Edinburgh, 1977
*''Want-Ad'', Birmingham Rep, Birmingham, 1977
*''Tissue'', Belgrade Theatre, Coventry, 1978
*''Hearing'', Birmingham Rep, Birmingham, 1979
*''Lucy'', Old Vic, Bristol, 1979
*''Flaws'', Sheffield University Drama Studio, Sheffield, 1980
*''House Wives'', Derby, 1981
*''Salonika'', Royal Court Theatre Upstairs, London, 1982
*''Falkland Sound/Voces De Malvinas'', Royal Court Theatre, London, 1983
*''Golden Girls'' Other Place, Stratford-upon-Avon, 1984
*''Real Estate'', Tricycle Theatre, London, 1984
*''Beauty and the Beards'', Old Vic Theatre, London, 1985
*''Beauty And The Beast'', Playhouse, Liverpool, 1985
*''Goat'', Croydon, 1986
*''Diplomatic Wives'', Watford Place Theatre, Hertford, 1989
*''Adam Was A Gardener'', Minerva Theatre, Chichester, 1991
*''Hawks And Doves'', Nuffield Theatre, Southampton, 1992
*''Spare Parts'', Studio Theatre, Sacramento, 1992
*''Like To Live'', New York, 1992
*''Another Nine Months'', New End Theatre, London, 1995
*''The Statue Of Liberty, Playhouse, Derby, 1997
References
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1955 births
2020 deaths
Writers from London
Alumni of the University of Birmingham
Alumni of the University of Wales
British dramatists and playwrights