Juliet Ace  Ann Juliet Ace (born 27 June 1938) is a dramatist and screenwriter who contributed to "EastEnders" and "The District Nurse". She also supplied many original scripts and dramatisations to BBC Radio drama, including "The Archers". She wrote the screenplay for "Cameleon", which won the Golden Spire Award for Best Dramatic Television Feature at the 1998 San Francisco International Film Festival. Juliet Ace was the third daughter of Charles and Glenys Ace, born and raised in Llanelli, Carmarthenshire in South Wales. She was educated at Llanelli Girls' Grammar School, City of Coventry Training College, which was soon to become Coventry College of Education and be incorporated into the University of Warwick, where she specialised in drama and art. She then trained further at Rose Bruford College of Speech and Drama. Ace taught for three years in St Mary Cray before joining a children's theatre company, and then working in weekly repertory at the Grand Theatre, Swansea for two seasons. In 1964, she began to work with children with special needs. After her marriage to Richard Alexander in 1966 she moved to Dartmouth, Devon, where her husband worked as a civilian lecturer at the Britannia Royal Naval College. For the next 18 years she brought up their two children: Daniel Alexander, now a business consultant, and Catherine Alexander, a theatre director and drama teacher. Meanwhile, Ace continued working with special-needs children, privately and in local schools, and directed and acted with local drama groups. Juliet Ace began writing plays in 1976, after taking part in an Arvon Foundation writing course. In 1979 she won a Gulbenkian Foundation/Arts Council of Great Britain Award to work with professional directors and actors on new writing. As a result, her first play, "Speak No Evil" was produced first as a stage play in Bristol and then as a radio play, directed by Enyd Williams. It was nominated for a Pye Award  After her early work in radio, she moved into television, where she worked with Julia Smith and Tony Holland and was taken from "The District Nurse" series to the creation of the BBC's "EastEnders", and then to the short-lived expatriate soap opera "Eldorado". While her dramatic imagination is rich – a leading character in the radio play "Lobby Talk" is a parrot – her background in life is also significant. Two successful sequences of radio dramas are uncommonly open semi-autobiographical journeys: first there is young Mattie Jones, growing up in South Wales, who appears as a child in "", set in 1946, and then completes her growth into a teenager in 1955, four plays later, in "Mattie and Bluebottle".