Heidi Thomas

Heidi Thomas is an English BAFTA- and Emmy-nominated screenwriter and playwright from Garston, Liverpool, Merseyside. [cite web| url = http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2006/12_december/18/lilies_background.shtml| title = Lilies by Heidi Thomas - a new drama series for BBC One| accessdate = 2007-04-12| publisher = BBC Press Office]

Career

Her screen adaptations include feature film "I Capture the Castle" and the screenplay for a BBC television adaptation of "Madame Bovary". In 2007 she was the creator, writer and executive producer of BBC period drama "Lilies", wrote the screenplay for the major BBC adaptation of Elizabeth Gaskell's "Cranford" and a film adaptation of the Noel Streatfeild novel "Ballet Shoes" for transmission over the Christmas period 2007 on BBC1. She has also written episodes for television series "Soldier Soldier" and "Dr. Finlay".

Thomas's play, "Shamrocks And Crocodiles", won the 1985 John Whiting Award.

Awards

In March 2008, she received the Best Writer award at the UK Royal Television Society awards for her work on Cranford. In April 2008 she received the Best Writer award at the UK Broadcasting Press Guild Awards for her work on "Cranford", "Ballet Shoes", and "Lilies". She was nominated for two BAFTA TV Awards for "Cranford" as well as a Primetime Emmy.

elected works

;Screenplays [cite web| url = http://www.bbc.co.uk/drama/cranford/| title = Cranford - BBC official website| accessdate = 2007-11-19| publisher = BBC] [cite web| url = http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0858912/| title = Heidi Thomas (II)| accessdate = 2007-04-12| publisher = IMDb] [cite web| url = http://www.bbc.co.uk/writersroom/insight/writers_heidi.shtml| title = Off Script| accessdate = 2007-04-12| publisher = bbc.co.uk] [cite web| url = http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2007/07_july/20/ballet.shtml| title = Ballet Shoes press release| accessdate = 2007-12-02| publisher = bbc.co.uk]

* "Madame Bovary", 2000, BBC One
* "I Capture the Castle", 2003, BBC Films
* "Lilies", 2007, BBC One
* "Ballet Shoes", 2007, BBC One
* "Cranford", 2007, BBC One

;Plays [cite web| url = http://www.doollee.com/PlaywrightsT/thomas-heidi.html| title = Heidi Thomas| accessdate = 2007-04-12| publisher = doollee] [cite web| url = http://www.writingstudio.co.za/page385.html| title = The Writing Studio: the art of writing and making films - Adaptation: I Capture the Castle| accessdate = 2007-04-12]

* "All Flesh is Grass", 1984, National Youth Theatre
* "Indigo", 1988, Royal Shakespeare Company and Almeida Theatre, London
* "Shamrocks and Crocodiles", 1987, Liverpool Playhouse and National Theatre Studio
* "Some Singing Blood", 1992, Royal Court Theatre

References

External links

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* [http://www.bbc.co.uk/writersroom/insight/writers_heidi.shtml Q&A: Off Script - Heidi Thomas] – Q&A from BBC website