Trish Cooke (born 1962) is a British playwright, actress, television presenter, scriptwriter and children's author.
[3] She gained a BA in Performing Arts from Leeds Polytechnic before moving to London in 1984 to pursue an acting career.
[4] In 1989 the company Temba staged her play Back Street Mammy,[6] which explored adolescent sexuality and the dilemmas of unplanned pregnancy.
In Running Dream a woman returns to Dominica to find both differences and close ties between her and the sisters she left behind there.
[8] Her series of inter-racial .....adaptations of children's fairy tales have been popular at the Theatre Royal Stratford East.