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Rona Munro (born 7 September 1959) is a Scottish writer. She has written plays for theatre, radio, and television. Her film work includes Ken Loach's Ladybird, Ladybird (1994), Oranges and Sunshine (2010) for Jim Loach and Aimée & Jaguar (1999), co-authored by German director Max Färberböck. Munro is the second cousin (once removed) of Scottish author Angus MacVicar.[1]

Rona Munro
Born	(1959-09-07) 7 September 1959 (age 63) Aberdeen, Scotland
Nationality	Scottish
Occupation	Writer, playwright

She was famous for writing the last serial of the original Doctor Who in 1989, and then writing an episode for the tenth series of the revived Doctor Who in 2017, making her the only writer to work in both the classic and revival eras of Doctor Who.[2]

Career

Munro's work on Doctor Who was not limited to just Survival (1989) and "The Eaters of Light" (2016).[3] She later novelised both stories for the original and revived range of Target Books, respectively.[4]

Her history cycle The James Plays, James I, James II, and James III, were first performed by the National Theatre of Scotland in summer 2014 in a co-production with Edinburgh International Festival and the National Theatre UK. The plays were staged again in early 2016. She followed this up with James IV - The Queen of the Fight in 2022. Her other credits include the theatre play Iron which has received many productions worldwide. Other theatre works include plays for the Traverse Theatre Edinburgh (Fugue, Your Turn To Clean The Stair, Strawberries in January translation), Manchester Royal Exchange (Mary Barton, Scuttlers), Plymouth Drum Theatre and Paines Plough (Long Time Dead), and the Royal Shakespeare Company (The Indian Boy, The Astronaut's Chair).

Munro has also contributed eleven dramas to Radio 4's Stanley Baxter Playhouse: First Impressions, Wheeling Them In, The King's Kilt, Pasta Alfreddo at Cafe Alessandro, The Man in the Garden, The Porter's Story, The German Pilot, The Spider, The Showman, Meg's Tale, and The Flying Scotsman.

In 2006 the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith presented Munro's adaptation of Richard Adams' classic book Watership Down. Her early television work includes episodes of the drama series Casualty (BBC) and, more recently, a BBC film, Rehab, directed by Antonia Bird.

Rona Munro currently lives and works in Scotland. Her play The Last Witch was performed at the 2009 Edinburgh Festival, directed by Dominic Hill, and in 2011 by Dumbarton People's Theatre. In 2018, a production of her adaptation of My Name Is Lucy Barton starring Laura Linney opened in London.

Awards

• Giles Cooper Award for Dirt Under The Carpet, 1988
• Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, 1991
• Evening Standard Award, NOOK Award for Best Play for The James Plays, 2014
• Writers' Guild of Great Britain Award, Best Play for The James Plays, 2014

Works

Plays

References

External links

• Rona Munro at IMDb
• Biography of Rona Munro at On Target
• Interview
• Rona Munro, doollee
• Guardian interview preceding Edinburgh festival 2009.

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