Ed Edwards
Ed started his creative career as a circus performer but stopped at the age when you start to think, “This is actually dangerous”. Ed now juggles a writing career, lecturing, making films and child-rearing. The latter being far more potentially injurious than slack-rope walking because these are two boys who share a love of violence.
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Ed was virtually illiterate at the age of eleven but eventually managed to educate himself, get to university and become a professional writer. He is now only one-third illiterate.
Ed was in jail in the early 90s doing three-and-a-half years for drugs offences where he published his first novel. He has now published five novels, a children’s book, worked for several continuing TV dramas including Holby City and the now defunct Brookside and The Bill. He maintains his having worked for these shows isn’t why they died.
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Ed has had several original plays broadcast on Radio 4 as well as short films on Channel 4 and BBC 2. Ed has recently turned to guerrilla film-making. His latest plays are The Political History of Smack and Crack which and England and Son - and he has recently directed a number of short films and co-directed and produced the feature film Scrambled. He misses the Soviet Union and Fidel Castro. He also loves making jam and writing about himself in the third person.