Claire Luckham was born in Kenya in 1944 and educated in boarding schools in Dorset & Wiltshire. She trained at the Central School of Speech & Drama as a stage manager and worked at Ipswich and Watford before joining RSC. Her many stage plays include The Choice, Fish Riding Bikes, Dogspot, Auntie Karr’s Frocks and a musical adaptation of Defoe’s Moll Flanders. She has also adapted five short stories by Alice Munro for BBC Radio 4, under the title Open Secrets.
