Frances Gray (playwright)


Frances B. Gray is a literary critic and playwright and former Reader in Drama at the University of Sheffield. She previously taught at Allegheny College, Pennsylvania, and at the University of Lodz. Gray is known for her work on comedy, crime, John Arden and Noël Coward and her plays for the stage and for radio. She was a member of the judging team for the Gold Dagger Awards for the best crime novel of the year and has won awards for scriptwriting from the Radio Times.

Works

John Arden, Macmillan 1982Noel Coward, Red Globe Press London 1987Women and Laughter, Palgrave Macmillan 1994Women, Crime and Language, Palgrave Macmillan London 2003Played in Britain: Modern Theatre in 100 Plays, with Kate Dorney, Bloomsbury Publishing 2013