Rosa Hesmondhalgh
Rosa Hesmondhalgh is a writer and actor from Yorkshire. Shortly after graduating from LAMDA in 2017 she was diagnosed with ovarian cancer. During treatment, she started a blog from her hospital bed called Madame Ovary, that she started to turn into a one-woman play after she went into remission. Madame Ovary was first performed at the Pleasance, Edinburgh, in 2019, where she won the VAULT Pick of the Pleasance Award.
