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Ms Carolyn Scott-Jeffs
Tel: +44 01509 222929
Role: Lecturer in Creative Writing
Email: C.S.Scott-Jeffs@lboro.ac.uk
Room NN.0.17, E Block, Martin Hall, East Park
Publications
My early career was as an actor and director before I became a writer. I have written stage plays Having it All, Wenches, Out in the Garden and Tarnished Angel. Out in the Garden was a sell-out success at the Finborough Theatre, London and transferred to the Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh. It was recently performed by Chelmsford Theatre Workshop in February 2011.
My Radio 4 plays include Angel of New Street, Square Circle Triangle (which was nominated for the Richard Imison Award), Tarnished Wings (my own adaptation of my stage play) 21 Conversations with a Hairdresser, 15 Ways to Leave Your Lover, and my most recent play Jesus, The Devil and a Kid Called Death was broadcast in February 2011. I have also written several episodes of the BBC1 serial Doctors.
In the summer of 2009 I adapted and co-directed The Harrowing of Hell, for Lichfield Garrick, which was performed in the Lichfield Mysteries by a combined cast of all of Lichfield Garrick's youth groups. I am now on the board of Lichfield Mysteries as a script consultant for the next cycle in 2012. I have also written contemporary links for this project, which will be performed by members of the local community. See http://www.lichfieldmysteries.co.uk/ . I am currently writing The Queen’s Women with Steph Dale, and we will be working on this with students on the Theatre Practice 2 Module next semester.
I have been a 0.5 Lecturer in Creative Writing at Loughborough since 2006 and I continue to write for TV, radio and theatre. My research interests include the history of radio drama and in particular women who write for radio. I convene the MA Pathway in Creative Writing as well as teaching the undergraduate modules 'Playwriting' and 'Dramaturgy 1 and 2'.