Caryl Churchill was born on September 3, 1938 in London, England. She studied
English literature at the University of Oxford and recieved her degree from that
institution in 1960. Her first dramatic works were produced at the University of Oxford. In 1961 she married David Harter and raised three sons. Churchill recieved her first professional stage production in 1972 when Owners was performed at the Royal Court Theatre. She has been a member of the Joint Stock Theatre Group, an organization dedicated to collective creation of theatrical work, and has worked with the Monstrous Regiment a feminist theatre union. Churchill is claimed by several political and artistic constituencies, the Socialist, feminists, and is the darling of proponents of workshops constuctions of plays, but is clearly a post-modernist voice. She is a writer of the humane presence and a champion of the individual choice. Her unusal use of theatrical structure always aims to reveal the value of the ecentric individual over the concentricities of an explosive social order.