Jenny McLeod

Jenny has been writing stage plays since 1988 and has had her work produced by the Bolton Octagon, the Tricycle, the Nottingham Playhouse and the Bush amongst others. She has also written a screenplay, MOLLY AND THE OUTLAWS, which was funded by British Screen/Miramax and her novel, STUCK UP A TREE, was published by Virago in 1998. She wrote the book of the musical POISON for the Tricycle Theatre, which opened there in February this year.

Credits

2005 THE NEWLANDS
Screenplay in development with producer Margaret Glover

2004 MOLLY AND THE OUTLAW - EMMI
Screenplay awarded development fee.

2003 Awarded place on EMMI regional film scriptwriting programme

2000 Selected for attachment to Royal National Theatre's Studio.

THE NUMBER TWELVE BUS (Watershed/Radio 4)
Commissioned to write short story

POISON (Tricycle Theatre)
Wrote book of the musical - opened February 2000.

1999/2000 DOIN' IT (Tricycle Theatre)
Play commissioned

1996/1997 MOLLY AND THE OUTLAWS (British Screen)
Funded to write second and third drafts

1994 RAISING FIRE (Bush Theatre)
Play commissioned and produced. Run there extended for further two weeks.

VICTOR AND THE LADIES (Tricycle Theatre)
Play produced

THE WILD AT HEART CLUB (National Theatre Education Department)
Play produced

1991-1992 Writer in Residence - Nottingham Playhouse.

1991 ISLAND LIFE - one of four plays selected by Monstrous Regiment to be published Autumn 1991 by Nick Hern Books in the book MONSTROUS REGIMENT, A COLLECTIVE CELEBRATION marking their fifteenth anniversary.

1990 THE WAKE (BBC2)
Broadcast September 1990 as part of Debut on Two scheme, a national competition to find new writers for television. THE WAKE was one of only 6 chosen out of 3,500 entries.

In May 1990 completed a short course in screen writing at the National Film and Television School.

In summer of 1990 re-worked THE MANGO TREE for Monstrous
Regiment and it was read at The Drill Hall in London.

1989 JUST LIKE A GENIE (Theatre Court)
A play for 9-13 year olds which toured schools and also played at the Lilian Bayliss Theatre.

1988 ISLAND LIFE (Monstrous Regiment)
Commissioned play opened October 1988 in Nottingham as a co-production between Monstrous Regiment and the Nottingham Playhouse. Went onto the Drill Hall the next year and then toured nationally.

CRICKET AT CAMP DAVID (Bolton Octagon)
Play commissioned and opened October 1988.

1987 THE MANGO TREE (Strange Fruit)
Commissioned play, toured nationally.

CRICKET AT CAMP DAVID
Winner of "Writing 87", competition run by the Nottingham and Derby
Playhouses, with her first play. One rehearsed reading at each Playhouse

Novels:

1998 Her first novel, STUCK UP A TREE was commissioned by Virago,
and published in 1999 by Virago in hardback and paperback