Sharman MacDonald

Sharman MacDonald

Sharman MacDonald is from Glasgow. An actress on graduation from Edinburgh university who gave it up to write. In 1984 her first play ‘When I was a girl I used to scream and shout’ was premiered at the bush theatre and won the Evening Standard Most Promising Playwright award. It went on to be produced at The Lyceum in Edinburgh, in the west end and throughout the world…not bad for what started out as a wager between Macdonald and her partner. The Glaswegian actor and playwright, was broke, sick of acting and impatient for a second child. Her partner rebuffed her request to increase the size of their family for financial reasons. He didn’t want to bring up another child on a diet of lentils and canned tomatoes. Desperate, Sharman gambled her future. She bet her partner she could sell a script. If she won, then another child was hers. When she wrote her first play in 1984 it was instantly snapped up by the bush theatre. The rest (as they say) is history!

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