Rona Munro


Rona Munro is a Scottish writer. She has written plays for theatre, radio, and television. Her film work includes Ken Loach's Ladybird, Ladybird, Oranges and Sunshine for Jim Loach and Aimée & Jaguar, co-authored by German director Max Färberböck.

Career

Rona Munro is known for being the author of the last Doctor Who television serial of the original run to air, Survival. She later novelised this serial for Target Books. Munro returned to Doctor Who in 2016 to write the tenth episode of the tenth series, titled "The Eaters of Light", making her the only writer to date to have worked on the classic and revived eras of the show.
Her history cycle The James Plays, James I, James II, and James III, were first performed by the National Theatre of Scotland in summer 2014 in a co-production with Edinburgh International Festival and the National Theatre UK. Her other credits include the theatre play Iron which has received many productions worldwide. Other theatre works include plays for the Traverse Theatre Edinburgh, Manchester Royal Exchange, Plymouth Drum Theatre and Paines Plough, and the Royal Shakespeare Company.
Munro has also contributed eleven dramas to Radio 4's Stanley Baxter Playhouse: ', ', ', ', ', ', ', ', ', ', and .
In 2006 the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith presented Munro's adaptation of Richard Adams' classic book Watership Down. Her early television work includes episodes of the drama series Casualty and, more recently, a BBC film, Rehab, directed by Antonia Bird.
Rona Munro currently lives and works in Scotland. Her play The Last Witch was performed at the 2009 Edinburgh Festival, directed by Dominic Hill, and in 2011 by Dumbarton People's Theatre. In 2018, a production of her adaptation of My Name Is Lucy Barton starring Laura Linney opened in London.

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