Jane Carter Woodrow

Ed Wilson · Johnson & Alcock Ltd · Bloomsbury House · Great Russell Street · London WC1 · www.johnsonandalcock.co.uk
Katie Langridge · Knight Hall Agency Ltd · London EC1Y 8RQ · www.knighthallagency.com

criminologist   ·   scriptwriter   ·   author   ·    playwright   ·   Media Appearances


Television & Theatre

Jane is a screenwriter of drama and factual drama including and has written episodes of The Bill (ITV), Coronation Street (ITV), In Suspicious Circumstances (ITV), and the film, The Thieving Headmistress (BBC2). She also regularly appears as an expert on crime documentaries including, in 2023, Fred West: The Glasgow Girls a 3-part crime documentary on Sky documentaries, Born To Kill (Channel 5), Crimes that Shook Britain (Crime and Investigation), Ten Steps to Murder (2020), The Young Life of Rose West (2020/1), consultant and expert appearance on Channel 5's Rose: Making of a Monster (2021), and many others. She also comments on homicide on ITV and SKY news.


This TV documentary series, in which Jane appears, tells the story of Fred West's time in Glasgow in the early 1960s and reveals for the first time the lives and experiences of his first victims: 1st wife Rena Costello, her friend Anne McFall and Rena's little daughter Charmaine.

Begins airing 19th February Sky Documentaries.

WHACK-A-MOLE Audio version

Likened to a female BREAKING BAD set in the fens, this black comedy thriller is about three generations of women, one of whom, Rachel, works as a music teacher whilst also struggling to care for her elderly mother and disabled daughter. When the answer to her prayers appears in the form of a windfall, she is left with a moral dilemma.

Starring Michelle Collins, with Nitin Ganatra (Masood, EastEnders) Linda Marlow (Sylvie Carter, EastEnders) and poem intro by JLS's Oritsé Williams, this digital recording will be debut streamed at the Cambridge Junction w/c 20th September. Other venues TBA.

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VOICES

This monologues project has evolved from the play reading groups and many interviews I have conducted with participants who live in supported housing, and with former and current service users living in the community, who have kindly helped me.
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LIFER

Dusting off the shadows of the past as she contemplates the possibility of parole after decades in prison, Mel reflects on her life and heinous crimes that brought her there while holding fast to her principles. Jane's full-length one woman play, LIFER, stars Michelle Collins, with an introduction by poet Lady Unchained. It is Arts Council England funded.
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SUMMAT'S HAPPENED

'Fantastic! The actors were superb and the characters and script brilliant.'

Jane's new full-length stage play of 2023 tells the story of 17-year-old Neil Jackson from Leeds, whose mum Emily became the second victim of serial killer the Yorkshire Ripper. Always very close to his mum since an earlier tragedy, Neil takes us through his personal journey of survival as the Ripper continues his killing spree.

'A tragedy yet with humour and healing at the heart of it, wonderfully told.'

Directed by Andrew Pritchard and starring James Jack Bentham and Francesca Larkin, Neil and Jane are happy to answer questions at the end of some sessions.

Arts Council Funded.

Watch an excerpt from a relaxed rehearsed reading here>


Jane has a PhD in Criminology from Cambridge University, a Master of Philosophy from Cambridge University, and a first degree in Modern History from London University. She has been a research fellow and associate for a number of years, researching into women and crime. She has written TV soaps and crime drama for ITV and BBC, and regularly appears in TV documentaries as an expert consultant on serial killers as well as on ITV news. Jane also writes crime drama for the stage.

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Books

After Evil

AS FEATURED IN THE NETFLIX SERIES THE RIPPER

she was one of the Yorkshire Ripper's victims, he was the boy left behind

Everything seemed perfect in Neil Jackson's childhood until one day he was awoken by the police knocking on the door to break the shocking news that his mother had become the victim of a serial killer.

Published by Hodder & Stoughton
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Rose West

AS FEATURED IN CHANNEL 5 DOCUMENTARY ROSE; THE MAKING OF A MONSTER

the making of a monster

Although it's hard to believe now, Rose West was an exceptionally beautiful little girl. What happened to that little girl to make her capable of such horrific crimes?

Published by Hodder & Stoughton
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Between two worlds

Jane's first novel

When Detective Chief Super Hoban spots a man he was sure was dead, he chases after him and starts a chain of events that leads him into the web of the Leed's underworld.

£2.99 Kindle Edition

Between Two Worlds won an honorary award at the San Francisco Book Festival 2015

The Wishlist

A young, forensic psychiatrist working at a Californian asylum for the criminally insane, crosses off names on her wishlist of those who deserve to die.

Winner Hollywood Book Festival 2021 (Best unpublished novel)



Whack-A-Mole Stage version

The play, likened to a female Breaking Bad is a tragi-comedy about three generations of women, one of whom is a music teacher who also cares for the other two. With readings at HighTide London and the Cambridge Junction, it toured in 2019 with CAE and featured Heather Coombs (Brexit: An Uncivil War, Call the Midwife) Jennifer Thompson (The Mountain Bluebird, The Courtyard Theatre), Mo Power (Billy Elliot the Musical, Victoria Palace Theatre, London), John Shields (Macbeth WNAT). and Leila. Directed by Andrew Pritchard.


Contact

For books Jane is represented by

Ed Wilson
Johnson & Alcock Ltd
Bloomsbury House
Great Russell Street
London WC1

www.johnsonandalcock.co.uk

For TV, film and stage, TV appearances and consultancies Jane is represented by

Katie Langridge
Knight Hall Agency Ltd
London EC1Y 8RQ

www.knighthallagency.com

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