Jenny McLeod

Jenny McLeod, born in Nottingham in 1963, won the competition Writing ’87 set up by Nottingham and Derby Playhouses with her first play Cricket at Camp David, which was later given a production by the Bolton Octagon Theatre in 1988. She was commissioned to write The Mango Tree for Strange Fruit Theatre Company and Island Life for Monstrous Regiment. Island Life opened at Nottingham Playhouse as a co-production in in 1988. Her children’s play, Just Like a Genie, toured schools and was performed at the Lilian Baylis Theatre and her television play, The Wake, produced by Phillipa Giles and Vicky Licorish was screened in 1990.