Roy Williams (playwright)
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| Born | January 5, 1968 Fulham, London |
| Occupation | Playwright |
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Roy Samuel Williams, OBE (born 1968) is an award-winning English playwright.[1] Williams has many awards including the George Devine Award for Lift Off, the 2001 Evening Standard Award for Most Promising Playwright for his play Clubland, the 2002 BAFTA Award for Best Schools Drama for Offside and 2004 South Bank Show Arts Council Decibel Award. Most recently his play Sucker Punch was nominated for the Evening Standard Award for BEst New Play and the Olivier Award for Best New Play 2011. He was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2008 Birthday Honours.[2]
[edit] Early life
Williams was born and brought up in London, Notting Hill, the youngest of four siblings in a single parent home with his mother working as a nurse after his father moved to America. Williams decided to work in theatre after being tutored by the writer Don Kinch when he was failing in school and attending some of his rehearsals in a black theatrical company Kinch ran. After leaving school at 18 he did various jobs including working in McDonalds and in a props warehouse. He was 25 when he took a theatre-writing degree at Rose Bruford College and has worked ever since in writing[3]
[edit] Work
His plays include:
- The Interrogation (three-play series) (2012) BBC Radio 4
- Sixty Six (short piece) (2011) Bush Theatre[4]
- Sucker Punch (2010) Royal Court Theatre downstairs[5]
- Baby Girl(2007), National Theatre part of the Connections Plays[6]
- Days of Significance (2007)
- Joe Guy (2007)
- Fallout (2003) Royal Court Theatre downstairs[7]
- Sing Yer Heart Out For The Lads(2002) National Theatre[8]
- Clubland (2001) Royal Court Theatre upstairs[9]
- Souls (2000)
- The Gift (2000)
- Local Boy (2000)
- Lift Off (1999)
- Starstruck (1998)
- No Boys Cricket Club (1996) Theatre Royal Stratford East
Williams has also done some work in television including adapting his own play Fallout for the TV.
[edit] References
- ^ Playwright Profile http://www.doollee.com/PlaywrightsW/williams-roy.html
- ^ http://www.londontheatre.co.uk/londontheatre/news/ju8/queensbirthdayhonourslist333162.htm
- ^ Early Life, The Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2008/feb/10/theatre1
- ^ http://www.bushtheatre.co.uk/biography/writers/
- ^ Sucker Punch http://www.royalcourttheatre.com/whats-on/sucker-punch
- ^ Baby Girl http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/24434/productions/baby-girl.html
- ^ Fallout http://www.royalcourttheatre.com/whats-on/fallout-2003
- ^ Sing Yer Heart Out For The Lads http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/7781/productions/sing-yer-heart-out-for-the-lads.html
- ^ Clubland http://www.royalcourttheatre.com/whats-on/clubland
