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Caryl Churchill was born in London, England, her parents were Jan Churchill(mom) who was a fashion model and actress and her dad who was a political cartoonist.
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After the Second World War, her family had moved to Canada when she was 10 years old. She later attended Lady Margret Hall, a women's college at the University of Oxford.
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Downstairs was one of the earliest plays she had produced. This play was performed at Oxford by student theater ensembles. This play was also performed at the National Student Drama Festival in 1958 and had won the first prize.
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Caryl had won the Sunday Times/National Union of Students Drama Festival Awards Downstairs
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After getting her B.A in 1960 she remained living in England
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This is the second of her three earliest plays and which had been played at Oxford by student theatre ensembles.
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While Caryl was raising a family, she also started to write short radio dramas for BBC radio.
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In 1961 she won the Richard Hillary Memorial Prize
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Caryl married David Harter in 1961 and later had 3 sons. They now live in Hackney, east London.
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This play was the last of the three of her earliest plays which she had written during her time at Oxford.
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She started also writing television plays for the BBC which later her radio plays were then adapted onto stage.
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In the mid-1980s, she started to incorporate dance theatre in her writing
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In 1981, she had won the Obie Award for Playwriting for her play: Cloud Nine
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Caryl had won an Obie Award for her playwright : Top Girls in 1982
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Caryl Churchill had gotten the award of Susan Smith Blackburn Prize as a runner up for the play of Top Girl in 1983.
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A Mouthful of Birds (1986) is the first example of this, and references the surrealist theatre tradition of Antonin Artaud and the Theatre of Cruelty.
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This play was one of the plays written by Caryl Churchill and its purpose was mostly to speak about the British stock market. It is also considered one of Churchill's finest plays. -
This play talks about human cloning and has been on my occasions performed by father and son duo's which had included Timothy and Samuel west.
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In 2008 Churchills 70th birthday was marked with a retrospective at the Royal Court.
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In 2010, she was inducted in the American Theatre Hall of Fame.
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In a 2011 dramatists' poll by The Village Voice, five out of the 20 polled writers listed Churchill as the greatest living playwright.
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In 2016, her most recent full length play called Escaped Alone premiered at the Royal Court. This play was also first performed in January 2016.
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In April 2022, Caryl Churchill was named the recipient of the 2022 European Drama award as recognition for her life work. This prize was worth £65,000 and was given to her by German theatre Schauspiel Stuttgart. This award was then cancelled after finding out of Caryl's support for boycotts, divestment, and sanctions movement
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