Her writing credits with Red Stockings include Ladies in the Lift (Manchester Evening News Theatre Award nomination), Running Gags, Breaking Rank, Oh Yes We Can, and The Influence. She also worked as an actress in various Northwest England theatres and on television, and was dramaturg for the Northwest Playwrights workshop. 

Her first play, Flying, was presented at the Royal National Theatre Studio in 1990. Other work include the two short television films One Day and Stella. She has written three acclaimed stage adaptations for Shared Experience Theatre: Anna Karenina (Time Out Award, Theatre Manager’s Association Award for Best Touring Production), The Mill on the Floss and War and Peace, which was also staged at the National Theatre.  

The Clearing won the Time Out Theatre Award and was the joint winner of the John Whiting Award. Anna Karenina appeared at the Brooklyn Academy of Music Next Wave festival in 1998.  

Ms. Edmundson studied at Manchester University, where she was also a part-time Tutor in Drama.
 
 

10/2001