Trish Cooke

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.