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- Rona Munro started writing professionally in 1981 and has since written for film, television, stage and radio. She wrote plays for The Play on One (1988) as well as the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and was accepted to the BBC's writer's training course. She met Doctor Who (1963) script editor Andrew Cartmel there, who was receptive to her desire to write for the series as a long-term fan of it. The result was Survival: Part One (1989), which would become the final transmitted serial of the original run. She subsequently wrote for Casualty (1986) and further television work included Bumping the Odds (1997) and Rehab (2003). Her film credits include Ladybird Ladybird (1994), directed by Ken Loach, and Aimee & Jaguar (1999). In 2016, she was announced as the first "classic series" writer to be employed to write for Doctor Who (2005).- IMDb mini biography by: Anonymous
- She was awarded the 1991 London Critics Circle Theatre Award (Drama Theatre Award) for Most Promising New Playwright for Bold Girls.
- [on the British coalition government in 2011] The Cabinet look like an episode of The Apprentice UK (2005) - a group of public school boys full of bumbling earnest, enthusiasm and God-given confidence trying to sell cheese to the French and making a right mess of it.
- I'm not drawn to gender politics in a tub-thumping way. But because I started out in the 1980s, I was involved in a lot of things that have become quite unfashionable, such as the woman's movement, and so were a lot of theatre groups.
- The only other job I've had was a cleaner. And I was rubbish at that.
- People want to dismiss drug addicts. The most effective thing you can do is make people empathise with characters they don't want to.
- MsFits started out as a feminist theatre company and in a way we still are but people don't tend to notice anymore.
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