Helen Edmundson is a British playwright and screenwriter. She has won awards and critical acclaim both for her original writing and for her adaptations of various literary classics for the stage and screen. Edmundson was born in Liverpool, in 1964. Most of her childhood was spent in northern England, on the Wirral and in Chester. Edmundson studied drama at Manchester University. After her studies, Edmundson acted with Red Stockings, a female agit-prop company, for whom she wrote the musical comedy Ladies in the Lift in 1988.This was her first solo attempt at writing for the stage. After leaving Red Stockings, she acted throughout northwest England. Edmundson has written two short films for television: One Day, broadcast on BBC Two in July 1991, and Stella for Channel 4. In 2015, she wrote two episodes of ITV drama The Suspicions of Mr Whicher, Beyond the Pale and The Ties that Bind, starring BAFTA Award-winners Paddy Considine and Tim Pigott-Smith. In September of the same year, Edmundson's feature-length adaptation of An Inspector Calls, starring BAFTA Award-winners David Thewlis and Miranda Richardson, was broadcast on BBC One; the adaptation won the 2016 Broadcasting Press Guild Award for Best Single Drama and was nominated for two 2016 British Academy Television Craft Awards.Recently, Edmundson wrote the upcoming film Mary Magdalene, directed by Emmy Award-nominee Garth Davis and starring Academy Award-nominees Rooney Mara and Joaquin Phoenix, which was released in March 2018. She is also adapting the novel The Awkward Age, to be broadcast by the BBC.

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