Alice Nutter

Early life She was born in Burnley, Lancashire, and attended Towneley High School.

Musical career Nutter joined Chumbawamba in 1982, not long after the band formed, and took up residence in their squat in Armley. With her music and politics closely integrated, Nutter picketed during the 1984-85 miners' strike and the 1986 Wapping dispute. In 1997, the band had an international hit with their song "Tubthumping", on which Nutter was a vocalist. She performed with the band on numerous international television shows and at the 1998 BRIT Awards. Nutter left Chumbawamba in 2006 to start a new career as a playwright. In 2012, she returned to the band for their final live performance at the Leeds City Varieties, recorded on the live DVD Going, Going – Live at Leeds City Varieties.

Writing career Her theatre work includes Foxes (2006) at the West Yorkshire Playhouse and Where's Vietnam? (2008) for Red Ladder Theatre Company at West Yorkshire Playhouse. Her radio work includes the afternoon play Snow In July (2008) for Radio 4 and the play My Generation (2012) for Radio 3. In 2013, My Generation was brought to the West Yorkshire Playhouse by its artistic director James Brining in the first full-scale, main-stage production of Nutter's work. In 2016, the West Yorkshire Playhouse in Leeds staged Nutter's play the Barnbow Canaries about women munition workers in Barnbow, Leeds, during the First World War. The factory the women were working in exploded one day in December 1915 and killed 35 and injured many more.

For television, Nutter has written an episode of Jimmy McGovern's series The Street (2007) The project did not come to fruition, but she later worked on the FX series Trust with Beaufoy about the Getty family and the kidnapping of John Paul Getty III, broadcast on BBC2 in 2018. With Beaufoy, she wrote the sequel television series to the 1997 film The Full Monty, produced by FX on Hulu and Disney+.

Personal life She changed her name by deed poll, feeling "an affinity" to the woman accused and hanged as a result of the 17th-century Pendle witch hunt.

Nutter is an atheist.

Writing credits Production Notes BroadcasterThe Street"The Postman" (2007)BBC OneCasualty"With This Ring" (co-written with Martin Jameson, 2009)BBC OneMoving On"The Test" (2010)BBC OneAccused"Helen's Story" (2010) BBC One32 Brinkburn Street"Episode #1.3" (2011) "Episode #1.4" (2011)BBC OneJustice"The Secret's Out" (2011)BBC OneThe Mill"Episode #2.4" (2014)Channel 4The White Princess"English Blood on English Soil " (2017)StarzTrust"Episode #5" (2018) "Episode #8" (2018) "Episode #9" (2018) "Episode #10" (2018)FXThe Full MontySeries co-creator and co-writer (2023)FX

Awards, honours, and nominations

Nutter's name is one of those featured on the sculpture Ribbons, unveiled in 2024.