Vanessa Rosenthal
Vanessa Rosenthal, from a Reform Jewish background in Manchester, trained at London's Central School of Speech and Drama. Her long acting career in English theatre has also included festival appearances from Wales to Italy. Her work ranges from early and modern classics and her own plays, to Ayckbourn in Scarborough and Bennett in Leeds, her adopted city, where her husband of 41 years was University Registrar. A long-time playwright for BBC Radio 4, originator of the Writing The Century...See more
Vanessa Rosenthal, from a Reform Jewish background in Manchester, trained at London's Central School of Speech and Drama. Her long acting career in English theatre has also included festival appearances from Wales to Italy. Her work ranges from early and modern classics and her own plays, to Ayckbourn in Scarborough and Bennett in Leeds, her adopted city, where her husband of 41 years was University Registrar. A long-time playwright for BBC Radio 4, originator of the Writing The Century series, she has also been Writer in Residence at Kings College and taken her plays to London, the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and Jerusalem. Through Yellow Leaf Theatre, she has encouraged new writing and extended theatre to new venues from art galleries to smaller communities. With her historian partner, her life is spread between her home in Leeds, the Scottish Borders and Le Marche. She has two daughters and five grandsons. See less
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