ABSTRACT
Louise Page was born in London in 1955, but has lived in Sheffield most of her life. She read drama at Birmingham University, and took a postgraduate diploma in playwriting, then returned to Sheffield in 1979 as Fellow in Drama and Television. In 1982–3, she was resident writer at the Royal Court, and in 1985, was awarded the first J. T. Grein Prize by the Critics’ Circle. She has a string of widely-produced plays from the early Tissue, through Salonika and Golden Girls to Beauty and the Beast (for The Women’s Playhouse Trust), Diplomatic Wives (1987), Adam Was a Gardener (1991), Hawks and Doves (1992) and Another Nine Months (1995).
