Corlett, William

William Corlett, after being educated at Fettes College in Edinburgh, trained as an actor at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. He soon started writing plays for the theater, including "The Gentle Avalanche" and "Return Ticket, " which were performed in London. Many television plays followed, including the award-winning series "Barriers, " for which he received the Writers' Guild Award for Best Children's Writer and a Gold Award at the New York International Film and Television Festival. His script for the children's series "The Paper Lads" won him another Writers' Guild Award for Be...