Caroline Bird – Playwright – Agamemnon
Caroline’s new stage version of The Wizard of Oz will be Northern Stage’s Christmas production. She is currently under commission to the Old Vic, writing the book and lyrics for a musical version of Dennis the Menace.
Previous work includes: Sixty-Six Books, The Bush Theatre, 2011; The Trojan Women, Gate Theatre, 2012; Chamber Piece, Show 3 of the Lyric Hammersmith’s Secret Theatre season, 2013 & UK tour 2013/2014.
Caroline was one of ten finalists for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize in 2014. She was shortlisted for Most Promising New Playwright at the Off-West-End Awards in 2013 and for the Shell Woman of the Future Awards in 2011.
Caroline is an award-winning poet with four poetry collections published by Carcanet Press. She was named one of the five official poets at London Olympics 2012.
Caroline has written Agamemnon for The Iphigenia Quartet.
