Agent:  Sarah McNair

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Nell Dunn was born in London in 1936.  She has written extensively for television and theatre.  She has also written novels, some of which have been published. 

Her latest play, HOME DEATH, opened on 10 July 2011 at the Finborough Theatre, Earl's Court.

She is currently working on LOST AND FOUND, a play about stroke victims, which had a reading at the Tristan Bates Theatre in January 2009.

Plays:   CANCER TALES (New Wolsey Theatre, 2005 and BBC Radio 4, 2009); BABE (2-Way Mirror Theatre Co, 1998); SISTERS (Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich, 1994); THE LITTLE HEROINE (Nuffield Theatre, Southampton, 1988); STEAMING (Theatre Royal, Stratford East / Comedy Theatre, West End – has also been produced in Norway, Sweden, Spain, Greece, Australia, New Zealand, Brazil and Hungary – it won the SWET, Evening Standard and Susan Smith Blackburn Awards for the Best Play of 1981, revived at the Piccadilly Theatre in 1997); I WANT (Liverpool Playhouse, 1976)

Television:  EVERY BREATH YOU TAKE (Granada, 1985); POOR COW (1966) and UP THE JUNCTION (1963) directed by Ken Loach

Books:  MY SILVER SHOES (Bloomsbury); GRANDMOTHERS TALKING TO NELL DUNN (Chatto, 1993); I WANT with Adrian Henri, (Cape, 1972); POOR COW (Virago, 1966); UP THE JUNCTION (Virago, 1963).

Other published work:  TALKING TO WOMEN, FREDDIE GETS MARRIED, THE INCURABLE, TEAR HIS HEAD OFF HIS SHOULDERS and THE ONLY CHILD