Clare McIntyre

Lindsay Clare McIntyre (21 July 1952 – 27 November 2009) was a British playwright and actress. She was among the feminist playwrights who contributed to the deconstruction of traditional forms of female representation. She debuted on the British feminist theatre scene as an actress in the 1970s, and emerged as a writer with allegiance to feminist issues a decade later. McIntyre was born in Harrogate, then in the West Riding of Yorkshire, on 21 July 1952 and grew up in Woldingham, Surrey, to later move to Manchester to study drama at the University of Manchester.She started working in acting with the Nottingham Playhouse's theatre-in-education team, and later joined the feminist Women's Theatre Group as a performer and deviser. Before devoting herself to full-time feminist playwriting, she also played minor roles in films such as The Pirates of Penzance (1983), Hotel du Lac (1986) and A Fish Called Wanda (1988).In the following years, she wrote not only for the stage, but also for television, as she contributed to the British soap operas EastEnders and Castles, and radio, with Walls of Silence (1993) and Noisy Bodies (1999). She taught on a postgraduate playwriting course at the University of Birmingham from 1991 to 1998.