Shirley Gee (25 April 1932 – 22 November 2016) was a British playwright.

Life and career

Born in London on 25 April 1932, she married actor Donald Gee on 30 January 1965. They had two sons; Joby (born in 1966) and Daniel (1968) and six grandchildren (in age order); Barney, Elliot, Harvey, Maisy, Ethan and Hal. She lived in Chelsea from 1965 to 2009. She then lived in Putney, London with her husband, until her death on 22 November 2016, at the age of 84.^[1]

Awards

Never In My Lifetime won the Samuel Beckett Award, 1985 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, and the 1983 BBC Giles Cooper Award.

Gee also won the 1979 BBC Giles Cooper Award, for Typhoid Mary.

Her play: Stones was runner up in the 1975 Radio Times Drama Awards.^[2]

Works

Plays

• Ask For The Moon. Faber and Faber. 1987. ISBN 978-0-571-13875-3., 1986
• Never In My Lifetime. Samuel French, Inc. 1993. ISBN 978-0-573-69475-2. 1984^[3]
• Typhoid Mary, 1983
• Warrior. Samuel French Ltd. 1991. ISBN 978-0-573-01931-9. 1989^[4]

Anthologies

• Best Radio Plays of 1979 (Modern Plays). Methuen. 1980. ISBN 978-0-413-47130-7.
• Wally K. Daly, ed. (1984). Best Radio Plays of 1983 (Modern Plays). Methuen. ISBN 978-0-413-55220-4.

Radio plays

• Stones, 1974;
• The Vet's Daughter, adapted from the novel by Barbara Comyns, 1976;
• Moonshine, 1977;
• Typhoid Mary, 1979;^[5][6]
• Bedrock, 1979;
• Men on White Horses, adapted from the novel by Pamela Haines,1981;
• Our Regiment, a documentary, 1982;
• Never in My Lifetime, 1983;
• Against the Wind, 1988, based on the life of Hannah Snell.

Teleplays

• Long Live the Babe, 1984,
• Flights, 1985.