Rona Munro

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.

Rona Munro is also known for being the author of the last Doctor Who television serial of the original run to air, Survival (1989). She later novelised this serial for Target Books. In November 2016, it was revealed Munro would be returning to Doctor Who to write the ninth episode of the tenth series, titled "The Eaters of Light".^[1]

Her most recent credits include the theatre play Iron which has received many productions worldwide. Other theatre works include plays for the Traverse Theatre Edinburgh, ('Strawberries in January' translation) Manchester Royal Exchange, ('Mary Barton'), Plymouth Drum Theatre and Paines Plough, ('Long Time Dead') and the Royal Shakespeare Company, ('The Indian Boy')

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 London. Her play, The Last Witch, was performed at the 2009 Edinburgh Festival, directed by Dominic Hill, and in 2011 by Dumbarton People's Theatre. 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 of Scotland.

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

• The Bang and the Whimper, 1982
• The Salesman, 1982
• Fugue, 1983
• Bus, 1984
• Touchwood, 1984
• Ghost Story, 1985
• Piper's Cave, 1985
• Watching Waiters, 1985
• Biggest Party in the World, 1986
• Dust And Dreams, 1986
• The Way To Go Home, 1987
• Winners, 1987
• Off The Road, 1988
• Long Story Short, 1989
• Saturday at the Commodore, 1989
• Bold Girls, 1990^[2]
• Scotland Matters, 1992
• Your Turn To Clean The Stair, 1992
• Haunted, 1999
• Federico García Lorca (1999). The House of Bernarda Alba [Rona Munro]. Nick Hern Books. ISBN 978-1-85459-459-4. 
• Snake, 1999
• Iron. Nick Hern Books. 2002. ISBN 978-1-85459-703-8. 
• Stick Granny on the Roofrack, 2002
• Gilt, 2003
• Catch A Falling Star!, 2004
• Women on the Verge of a T Junction, 2004
• Indian Boy, 2006
• Long Time Dead, 2006
• The Maiden Stone, 2006
• Mary Barton, 2006
• Strawberries in January, 2006
• Watership Down, 2006
• Dirt Under The Carpet, 2007
• Donny's Brain, 2012
• The James Plays (three plays about Kings James I, II and III of Scotland), 2014.
• Scuttlers, 2015

References

External links

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