Penny Woolcock

Biography:

Penny Wool* is a British filmmaker opera director and screenwriter. She was raised in a British community in Montevideo speaking English and going to English schools. In 1967 she founded a radical theatre group and was briefly arrested; her parents wanted to send her to Europe for safety. Instead she fled to Spain with a man from the theatre group and had a baby in Barcelona. In 1970 she moved to England as a single mother.