Shirley Gee (25 April 1932 – 22 November 2016) was a British theatre and radio playwright and dramatist.
Born in London, she married actor Donald Gee on 30 January 1965. They had two sons; Joby (born in 1966) and Daniel (1968) and six grandchildren (in age order); Barney, Elliot, Harvey, Maisy, Ethan and Hal. She lived in Chelsea from 1965 to 2009. She then lived in Putney, London with her husband, until her death on 22 November 2016, at the age of 84.
Awards
Gee won the 1979 BBC
Giles Cooper Award
The Giles Cooper Awards were honours given to plays written for BBC Radio.
Sponsored by the BBC and Methuen Drama, the awards were specifically focused on the script of the best radio drama produced in the past year. Five or six winners were cho ...
for her radio play "Typhoid Mary"
''Never in My Lifetime'' won the
Samuel Beckett Award
The Samuel Beckett Award was a British award set up in 1983 and, over the next decade, awarded to writers, who in the opinion of a committee of critics, producers and publishers, showed innovation and excellence in writing for the performing arts. ...
, 1985
Susan Smith Blackburn Prize
The Susan Smith Blackburn Prize established in 1978, is the largest and oldest playwriting prize for women+ writing for English-speaking theatre. Named for Susan Smith Blackburn (1935–1977), alumna of Smith College, who died of breast cancer.
W ...
, and the 1983 BBC
Giles Cooper Award
The Giles Cooper Awards were honours given to plays written for BBC Radio.
Sponsored by the BBC and Methuen Drama, the awards were specifically focused on the script of the best radio drama produced in the past year. Five or six winners were cho ...
.
Her play: ''Stones'' was runner up in the 1975
Radio Times
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Drama Awards.
Works
Plays
*, 1986
* 1984
*''Typhoid Mary'', 1983
* 1989
Anthologies
*
*
Radio plays
* ''Stones'', 1974;
* ''The Vet's Daughter'', adapted from the novel by Barbara Comyns, 1976;
* ''Moonshine'', 1977;
* ''Typhoid Mary'', 1979;
* ''Bedrock'', 1979;
* ''Men on White Horses'', adapted from the novel by Pamela Haines,1981;
* ''Our Regiment'', a documentary, 1982;
* ''Never in My Lifetime'', 1983;
* ''Against the Wind'', 1988, based on the life of
Hannah Snell.
Teleplays
* ''Long Live the Babe'', 1984,
* ''Flights'', 1985.
References
External links
''Shirley Gee'', doollee
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1932 births
2016 deaths
English dramatists and playwrights