Tom Hadaway was born in 1923 in North Shields and began writing at the encouragement of C. P. Taylor. Most of his stage plays were premiered by Live Theatre, including Seafarers, The Long Line and God Bless Thee, Jackie Maddison. He also worked with the North-Eastern film company Amber Films and the BBC has broadcast eight of his television plays. The Filleting Machine was published by Methuen Drama in 2003 in Live Theatre: Six Plays from the North East. His Prison Plays were published in 2004. He died the following year.
