Jane Arden (29 October 1927 – 20 December 1982, born Norah Patricia Morris) was a British film director, actress, singer/songwriter and poet. Her work for stage and television gained attention in the 1950s. Born in Pontypool, Monmouthshire, she studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. She started acting in the late 1940s writing theatre plays and television scripts in the 1950s. In the 1960s, she joined movements for feminism and anti-psychiatry. She wrote a screenplay for the film Separation (1967). In the late 1960s and the 1970s, she wrote for experimental theatre, adapting one work as a self-directed film, The Other Side of the Underneath (1972). In 1978, she published a poetry book that stated her social views. Arden committed suicide in 1982. In 2009, her feature films Separatio