Willy Russell
Willy Russell is an English dramatist best known for Educating Rita (1986). He was born in Whiston, near Liverpool in 1947 to a working class family; his father worked in a factory and his mother was a nurse and then in a warehouse. After he left school he became a hairdresser and took other odd jobs, such as a warehouseman. Being a hairdresser was, in his own admittance, “a job I didn’t understand and didn’t like,” and he began to write songs and sketches for the...