Polly Teale
- Writer
- Director
Polly Teale is an award-winning theatre practitioner. She has been
joint artistic director of the theatre company, "Shared Experience",
since 1995. As well as her work with "Shared Experience", she has
directed across the UK. In the 1980s, she authored a number of original
plays and stage adaptations. She has found particular acclaim creating
works relating to Charlotte Brontë -
her seminal 1997 adaptation of Bronte's novel, "Jane Eyre", was
followed by an adaptation of Jean Rhys's "Wide
Sargasso Sea" (a prequel to "Jane Eyre") in 2003, and "Bronte", a play
exploring the lives of Charlotte and her family in 2005. She has a
daughter, Eden (born c. 2000), with her husband,
Ian Rickson.
