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English novelist and theatre director

Verity Eileen Bargate (&#;) was an English novelist and theatre director.

In , she co-founded the cutting-edge Soho Theatre Company, later known as the Soho Theatre.

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She also wrote three novels, No mama No, Children Crossing, and Tit for Tat.^[1]

Her first husband was Soho Theatre co-founder Fred Proud. Her second husband, till her death, was the playwright and screenwriter Barrie Keeffe.

She died of cancer at the age of After her death, the Verity Bargate Award was set up in her memory to encourage and reward new writing in the theatre.^[2]

Biography

By Irving Wardle, taken from the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.^[3]

Verity Eileen Bargate [married names Proud, Keeffe], Verity Eileen (–), theatre producer and novelist, was born on 6 August in Exeter, the second child of Ronald Arthur Bargate, electrical shopkeeper and later sales manager in the London Metal Warehouse, and