Manjeet Mann

Manjeet Mann is a British actor, playwright, screenwriter and author who grew up in a working-class family in Walsall, in the Black Country. She studied performing arts at Coventry University and worked for years as an actor in theatre, television, film, radio and audiobooks before writing and producing her own stage work with Birmingham Repertory Theatre and the Soho Writers' Lab. She founded Run the World, a not-for-profit that uses sport and theatre to empower women and girls. Her debut verse novel for teenagers, Run, Rebel (2020), was followed by The Crossing (2021), which won the Costa Children's Book Award. She has also written picture books.

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