Bio

Ed Edwards 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, studying for a PhD 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. Ed was semi-literate at the age of eleven but eventually managed to educate himself, get to university and become a professional writer. He is now only one tenth illiterate. He was in jail in the early 90s doing a 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 Hołby City and the now defunct Brookside and The Bill. He maintains his having worked for these shows isn’t why they died. He has had several original plays broadcast on Radio 4 as well as short films on Channel 4 and BBC2. Ed has recently turned to guerilla film making and is currently writing a play for the political comedian Mark Thomas.