Carolyn Swift

Swift, Carolyn (1923- ), playwright, screen-writer, children's author; born in London, and educated in schools in Sussex, she wrote The Millstone (1951) after marrying, in 1947, the Irish director Alan Simpson, who produced this play about adoption in Dun Laoghaire. With Simpson she founded the Pike Theatre, which staged Brendan Behan's The Quare Fellow and Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot in 1953. Other plays were Resistance (1977) and Lady G (1987). She was a series editor and writer for a number of series on RTÉ radio and television, including children's programmes.