Kay Adshead (born 1954) is a British actress, poet, and playwright. Her television credits include Christine in the BBC television series Dinnerladies, Barbara Fletcher in Family Affairs, Victoria Wood As Seen On TV, Crime Traveller, Mother's Ruin, and One Foot in The Grave.

Her credits as a playwright include^[1]

• Metal and Feathers - Cockpit Theatre, (part of Small Objects of Desire)
• The Still Born - Soho Theatre
• Fears and Miseries of the Third Term
• After the Party - Altered States / Liverpool Playhouse
• Thatcher's Women - 1987 Paines Plough / Tricycle Theatre
• Ravings: Dreamings - 1993 Library Theatre, Manchester
• The Slug Sabbatical - 1995 The Red Room. Calouste Gulbenkian Award Bursary for performance poetry
• Bacillus - 1996 Performed at The Red Room following rehearsed readings at the Cockpit and the Hampstead
• Juicy Bits - 1998 Lyric, Hammersmith
• Bogus People's Poem - 2000 The Red Room / BAC
• The Bogus Woman - 2000-2001 Traverse Theatre / Bush Theatre (2000 Fringe First from The Scotsman : Nominated for the 2001 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize )
• The Snow Egg - 2001 Play for Children Tiebreak Theatre tour
• Lady Chill, Lady Wad, Lady Lurv, Lady God]] - 2001-2002 - National Theatre, part of Shell Connections
• Animal - 2003 - Soho Theatre, National Tour
• Bites - 2005 Bush Theatre
• Bones - 2006 - Bush Theatre (Nominated for the 2006 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize)

[edit] External links

• Kay Adshead at the Internet Movie Database

[edit] References

1. ^ "Kay Adshead". The Guide to World Drama. http://www.4-wall.com/authors/authors_a/adshead_kay.htm. Retrieved 2009-04-15.