Jenny McLeod (playwright) facts for kids

Jenny McLeod, born in 1963, is a talented British writer who creates plays for the stage. She grew up in a city called Nottingham in England.

Jenny started writing plays when she was still in school, after she saw an advertisement in a local newspaper. Her very first play, Cricket at Camp David, won a writing competition in 1987. This success helped her write another play called Island Life for a group called the Monstrous Regiment Theatre Company.

In the early 1990s, Jenny was a "writer-in-residence" at the Nottingham Playhouse. This meant she worked closely with the theater, writing new plays and helping with their productions. Later, in 1995, she received an award from Thames Television, which allowed her to be a writer-in-residence at the Tricycle Theatre in London.

Jenny McLeod's Plays

Jenny McLeod has written several interesting plays.

Stories on Stage

• Island Life was first shown at the Nottingham Playhouse. This play told the stories of three women living in an old people's home.
• Raising Fires (1994) was about a young girl named Tilda from the West Indies. She was brought to England in the 1600s and was wrongly accused of witchcraft.
• Poison (2000) was a play adapted from a musical version of Othello. It was originally created in South Africa by David Kramer.

Where Her Plays Were Performed

Many of Jenny McLeod's plays have been performed in different theaters across the UK:

• Cricket at Camp David was performed at the Octagon Theatre, Bolton in 1988.
• Island Life was shown by the Monstrous Regiment Theatre Company at the Nottingham Playhouse in 1988.
• The Mango Tree was performed by the Strange Fruit Theatre Company in 1990.
• Raising Fires was staged at The Bush Theatre in London in 1994.
• The Wild at Heart Club was performed by the National Youth Theatre in 1995.
• Victor and the Ladies was shown at the Tricycle Theatre in 1995.
• It's You! was performed in 1995.
• Poison was performed at the Tricycle Theatre in 2000.

Published Works

Some of Jenny McLeod's plays and scripts have also been published, meaning you can read them as books:

• Her TV script The Wake was included in a book called Debut on Two in 1990.
• Island Life was published in a book about the Monstrous Regiment theatre group in 1991.
• Raising Fires was part of a collection called Bush Plays in 1993.