Carole Hayman

Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Use British English Carole Hayman is an English writer, broadcaster, actor and director. She was born in Kent, and attended Leeds University and the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.<ref>Carole Hayman profile via Wayback Machine accessed 20 September 2011</ref> She has been an actress and theatre director and was an associate director at the Royal Court Theatre in the late eighties. She was married to Max Stafford-Clark, the director of the theatre during some of that period. During that time she appeared in many of Caryl Churchill's plays including, Cloud Nine and Top Girls. As Associate Director, she directed plays by Sarah Daniels, Andrea Dunbar, G.E. Newman, Fay Weldon and Sue Townsend, including Ripen our Darkness and Byrthrite by Sarah Daniels and Bazaar and Rummage and The Great Celestial Cow by Sue Townsend. She has published many comic and satirical novels and written radio and TV series for the BBC, ITV and Channel Four. These include Ladies of Letters<ref>Template:Cite web Template:Dead link</ref> (co-written with Lou Wakefield) and The Refuge and The Spinney (co-written with Sue Townsend).

Novels

The Warfleet Chronicles, consisting of:
- Missing (1998) Gollancz
- Greed, Crime, Sudden Death (1998) Gollancz
- Connections (2002), published online at http://www.sealit.org
Hard Choices (2001) published online. Later published in hard copy by Aurora Metro.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Cuddling Sharks (2001) published online
One to Watch (2001) published online
Ladies of Letters (series of books and BBC Radio 4 eleven comedy series. ITV three TV series)
- Ladies of Letters (2000) Granada Media
- More Ladies of Letters (2000) Granada Media
- Ladies of Letters.com (2001, Little, Brown)
- Ladies of Letters Log On (2002)
The Rashomon Principle (2000)
Ciaou Kim (1989)
All The Best Kim (1988) HarperCollins

She played Mrs Godber in "The Veiled Lady", S2:E2 of ITV's Agatha Christie's Poirot, January 14, 1990.