Author biography
Jude Alderson originally worked as a trapeze artist. She founded the cabaret group Sadista Sisters in 1975, where she worked as a singer, actress, songwriter and director. They toured major theatres and rock festivals all over Britain and Europe, including a season at Ronnie Scott's. For several of those years she collaborated as a songwriter with Dave Stewart, later of the Eurythmics. She was also a film actress, working with some of the greats: Karel Reisz, Alex Cox, Stephen Frears and Allesandro Jodorowsky. She then concentrated on writing, directing and composing. She wrote: the historical romp Rachel and the Roarettes for BBC TV, which starred Gary Oldman and Josie Lawrence; and Madonna in Slag City, a play about war and radicalism for a cast of 17 and an orchestra. She also directed Brecht/Weill and Stravinsky for 'L'ensemble' in New York, and the world premiere of Rug of Identity for Hard Corps in London. Jude has written several full-length stage plays that have been produced in London. Her play Belonging was shortlisted for the London Weekend Television award and headlined (with David Sibley and Claire Benedict) at the Cheltenham Festival in 1993. She is currently writing a feature film commissioned by the BBC: Soldier's Woman, set in 1854. She is also currently working on a major new musical, Sheherazade, writing the book and lyrics with composers Michael Dunford (Renaissance) and Richard Brown (Royal Shakespeare Company). Charity, her most recent stage play, and her first title for Online Originals, had a rehearsed reading at the Groucho Club with Annette Badland, Kevin McNally, Pete Howitt, Suzanna Doyle and Vernon Dobtcheff, and is being considered for a West End run. |