Charlotte Jones has written seven previous stage plays: Airswimming, In Flame, Martha, Josie and the Chinese Elvis, Humble Boy, The Dark, The Lightning Play and The Meeting. She won the Critics' Circle Most Promising Playwright Award, 1999. Martha, Josie and the Chinese Elvis won the Pearson TV Best New Play Award and Manchester Evening News Best New Play Award, 1999. Humble Boy won the Critics' Circle Best New Play, 2001, Susan Smith Blackburn Award, People's Choice Best New Play, 2001, and was nominated for an Olivier Award and a Drama Desk Award. It ran at the National Theatre and in the West End and has since been produced all over the world. She wrote the book for Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical of Wilkie Collins' novel The Woman in White (lyrics by David Zippel) which ran in the West End and on Broadway. She has also written extensively for TV, film and radio. She is an Honorary Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford.
