Heidi Thomas

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Heidi Thomas is an English screenwriter and playwright from Garston, Merseyside.[1] Her screen adaptations include feature film I Capture the Castle and the screenplay for a BBC television adaptation of Madame Bovary. In 2007 she was the creator, writer and executive producer of BBC period drama Lilies, wrote the screenplay for the major BBC adaptation of Elizabeth Gaskell's Cranford and a film adaptation of the Noel Streatfeild novel Ballet Shpes for transmission over the Christmas period 2007 on BBC1. She has also written episodes for television series Soldier Soldier and Dr. Finlay.

Thomas's play, Shamrocks And Crocodiles, won the 1985 John Whiting Award. In March 2008, she received the Best Writer award at the UK Royal Television Society awards for her work on Cranford. In April 2008 she received the Best Writer award at the UK Broadcasting Press Guild Awards for her work on Cranford, Ballet Shoes and Lilies.

[edit] Selected works

Screenplays[2][3][4]

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Plays[6][7]
  • All Flesh is Grass, 1984, National Youth Theatre
  • Indigo, 1988, Royal Shakespeare Company and Almeida Theatre, London
  • Shamrocks and Crocodiles, 1987, Liverpool Playhouse and National Theatre Studio
  • Some Singing Blood, 1992, Royal Court Theatre

[edit] References

  1. ^ Lilies by Heidi Thomas - a new drama series for BBC One. BBC Press Office. Retrieved on 2007-04-12.
  2. ^ Cranford - BBC official website. BBC. Retrieved on 2007-11-19.
  3. ^ Heidi Thomas (II). IMDb. Retrieved on 2007-04-12.
  4. ^ Off Script. bbc.co.uk. Retrieved on 2007-04-12.
  5. ^ Ballet Shoes press release. bbc.co.uk. Retrieved on 2007-12-02.
  6. ^ Heidi Thomas. doollee. Retrieved on 2007-04-12.
  7. ^ The Writing Studio: the art of writing and making films - Adaptation: I Capture the Castle. Retrieved on 2007-04-12.

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