Helen Edmundson

Helen Edmundson is a British playwright. She has won awards and critical acclaim both for her original plays and for her adaptations of various literary classics for the stage.

Theatre

Edmundson's first play Flying was produced at the National Theatre Studio in 1990. In 1992, her adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina, produced by Shared Experience, won a UK Theatre Award; the production toured nationally and internationally. In 1993, Edmundson's original play The Clearing, which won the John Whiting Award for best new play, and a Time Out Award, was staged at the Bush Theatre. In 1994, her adaptation of George Eliot's The Mill on the Floss was also produced by Shared Experience, again touring nationally and internationally; the play won a Time Out Award. In 1996, Shared Experience staged Edmundson's adaptation of Tolstoy's War and Peace at the National Theatre; the production was co-directed by Nancy Meckler and Polly Teale and starred Rakie Ayola and BAFTA Award-nominee Anne-Marie Duff.