Charlotte Jones (writer)
Charlotte Jones is a British actress, screenwriter and playwright. Career Her first play Airswimming debuted in 1997 at the Battersea Arts Centre in London. Her other plays include In Flame, The Dark, The Lightning Play, and Humble Boy. Charlotte Jones wrote the book to the 2004-2006 West End musical, The Woman in White, in collaboration with the David Zippel and Andrew Lloyd Webber. In television, she wrote episodes of Always and Everyone and The Palace . She created the ITV period drama The Halcyon. It is set in 1940 and focuses on a five-star hotel at the centre of London Society and a world at war. The series was first announced on 3 December 2015, before the official cast was announced on 4 April 2016, with Steven Mackintosh and Olivia Williams playing major roles. The series was cancelled after one series. In 2018, Humble Boy was revived at the Orange Tree Theatre and The Meeting debuted at Chichester Festival Theatre. Awards She won the 2001 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. References External links Radio Plays by Charlotte Jones Living people 1968 births Place of birth missing (living people) Alumni of Balliol College, Oxford British women dramatists and playwrights Critics' Circle Theatre Award winners English dramatists and playwrights English television writers English screenwriters British women television writers