HEIDI THOMAS
- The House of Special Purpose - Author -Festival 2009
Biography
Theatre includes Indigo (RSC, Almeida), and a version of Ibsen’s Lady From the Sea (Riverside Studios, National Theatre of Norway), Shamrocks and Crocodiles (Liverpool Playhouse, National Theatre Studio. John Whiting Award for Best New Play of 1987).
Television includes Our Lady Blue, Dr Finlay, Frank Stubbs Promotes, Soldier Soldier, Kiss and Tell, Madame Bovary, Ballet Shoes.
Heidi created and wrote the BBC drama series Lilies and wrote the screenplays for I Capture the Castle and Ballet Shoes.
Heidi wrote the multi-award winning Cranford, earning Primetime Emmy and Bafta nominations for Outstanding Writing, and Best Writer Awards from The Royal Television Society, The Broadcasting Press Guild and the Writer’s Guild of Great Britain.
