Louise Mary Page (7 March 1955 – 30 May 2020) was a British playwright.
Life Page was born on 7 March 1955 in London.
Page studied at University College Cardiff (now Cardiff University) and at the University of Birmingham. She was commissioned by the Birmingham Arts Lab, and was Yorkshire Television Fellow at Sheffield University. She was Royal literary Fellow at Leeds Trinity University 2003–04, Edge Hill University, and University of Huddersfield, 2007–2009.
Page was the first fellow to be placed at University of Huddersfield; she made a significant contribution to the academic development of many students, particularly in health and social care education, drawing on her personal experience of health and ill-health
Page's legacy was a well-established fellowship which has been continuous since. During her time at Huddersfield her play Salonika was produced at the Leeds Playhouse and she led a creative writing masterclass at the Huddersfield Literary Festival in 2008.
After Huddersfield she continued to collaborate with the Fellowship coordinator there to produce a Reflective Practice textbook, using a creative, narrative style.Hargreaves, J. and Page, L. (2013) Reflective Practice: Polity Press.
With her husband, Christopher Hawes, Page ran Words4work.
Page died of cancer on 30 May 2020, aged 65.
Awards
1977 International Student Playscript Award for Lucy. 1982 George Devine Award, for Salonika. 1985 J.T. Grein Award, by the Critics Circle
Works Glasshouse, Edinburgh, 1977 Want-Ad, Birmingham Rep, Birmingham, 1977 Tissue, Belgrade Theatre, Coventry, 1978 Hearing, Birmingham Rep, Birmingham, 1979 Lucy, Old Vic, Bristol, 1979 Flaws, Sheffield University Drama Studio, Sheffield, 1980 House Wives, Derby, 1981 Salonika, Royal Court Theatre Upstairs, London, 1982 Falkland Sound/Voces De Malvinas, Royal Court Theatre, London, 1983 Golden Girls Other Place, Stratford-upon-Avon, 1984 Real Estate, Tricycle Theatre, London, 1984 Beauty and the Beards, Old Vic Theatre, London, 1985 Beauty and the Beast, Playhouse, Liverpool, 1985 Goat, Croydon, 1986 Diplomatic Wives, Watford Place Theatre, Hertford, 1989 Adam Was A Gardener, Minerva Theatre, Chichester, 1991 Hawks And Doves, Nuffield Theatre, Southampton, 1992 Spare Parts, Studio Theatre, Sacramento, 1992 Like To Live, New York, 1992 Another Nine Months, New End Theatre, London, 1995 The Statue of Liberty, Playhouse, Derby, 1997
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