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In our closing lecture, British screenwriter Alice Birch discusses her body of work including Lady Macbeth (2016), Normal People (2020), The Wonder (2022) and The End We Start From (2023).
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Rounding off our series is Alice Birch who rose to prominence with some of the most fierce and powerful plays to hit the London stage in the last decade. Alongside her screen credits, including Lady Macbeth (2016), Normal People (2020), The Wonder (2022), and The End We Start From (2023), Birch has established herself as one of the most exciting contemporary voices in British theatre and screenwriting.
About Alice Birch
Alice is an award-winning playwright and screenwriter whose recent plays include The House of Bernarda Alba (National Theatre); [BLANK] (Donmar Warehouse / Clean Break); Orlando (Schaubühne, Berlin) and Anatomy of a Suicide (Royal Court Theatre).
Alice wrote the critically acclaimed original series Dead Ringers, inspired by the Cronenberg film of 1988, for Annapurna and Amazon last year. She was the lead writer and an executive producer and the series starred Rachel Weisz. Previously Alice wrote the TV adaptation of Normal People, alongside Sally Rooney and Mark O’Rowe, for which she and Sally were nominated for an Emmy. She also wrote on the TV adaptation of Conversations with Friends and she worked as Story Editor on Season 2 of Succession for HBO.
Her first feature was Lady Macbeth which won 5 British Independent Film Awards in 2017 including Best Screenplay. Her second feature was an adaptation of the Graham Swift novel Mothering Sunday for Number 9 Films and Film 4. She co-wrote The Wonder with Sebastián Lelio and Emma Donoghue, and most recently she wrote an adaptation of The End We Start From which was directed by Mahalia Belo and starred Jodie Comer.
She is currently working with A24 and the BBC on an adaptation of Kaliane Bradley's The Ministry of Time as well as further projects with Netflix, A24, House Productions and Film 4.
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