Jacquetta May is a British writer, actress, and theatre director. Born in 1960, she went to Bristol University and worked as a theatre actress for 10 years before moving into TV, appearing at at the National Theatre, The Royal Exchange and Liverpool Playhouse amongst others. Theatre roles include Eliza Doolittle in Pygmalion, Adriana in The Comedy of Errors, Olivia in Twelfth Night, Lady Chatterley in Lady Chatterley's Lover, Rita in Educating Rita and Beverley in Abigail's Party.
She co-founded the award-winning new writing theatre company Plain Clothes Productions, commissioning, producing and directing for the company and directed Her Sister Tongue at Lyric Theatre in 1997.
Jacquetta started writing for television at World Productions in 2000. She co-created UGetMe for CBBC which ran for 3 series (2003 - 2005), and wrote for No Angels (2006), Where the Heart Is (2000), Shades (2000), New Tricks (2006), Personal Affairs (2009), and for the first series of Torchwood (2006). Her film In Love with Barbara (2008) about the romantic novelist Barbara Cartland and her friendship with Lord Mountbatten was broadcast on BBC4 in 2008. She adapted Erica Jong's iconic novel Fear of Flying, and her legal thriller Lawless was piloted in 2012 on Sky Living. She develops TV Series for all channels.
