Roy Williams | |
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| Born | Roy Samuel Williams 1968 (age 56–57) Fulham, London, England |
| Occupation | Playwright |
| Alma mater | Rose Bruford College |
| Notable awards | Alfred Fagon Award Windham-Campbell Literature Prize |
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Roy Samuel Williams OBE FRSL (born 1968) [1] is a British playwright.
Williams was born in 1968 in Fulham, London, and was brought up in Notting Hill, the youngest of four siblings in a single-parent home, with his mother working as a nurse after his father moved to the United States. Williams decided to work in theatre after being tutored by the writer Don Kinch when he was failing in school and attended some rehearsals in a black theatrical company that Kinch ran.
After leaving school at the age of 18, Williams did various jobs, including working in McDonald's and in a props warehouse. In 1992, he took a theatre-writing degree at Rose Bruford College and has worked ever since as a writer. [1]
His first full-length play was The No Boys Cricket Club, which premiered in 1996 at the Theatre Royal Stratford East. [2] Williams has done work in television, including adapting his own play Fallout, and he also co-wrote the script for the 2012 British film Fast Girls .
His plays include:
