Roy Samuel WilliamsOBEFRSL is a British playwright.
Early life
Williams was born in
Fulham,
London, and 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
Theatre Royal Stratford East.[2] Williams has done work in television, including adapting his own play Fallout, and also co-wrote the script for the 2012 British film Fast Girls.
Unexpected Twist (based on the children's novel by
Michael Rosen) opens at the Royal & Derngate Theatre Northampton, followed by four-month UK theatre tour in 2023.
Roy Samuel WilliamsOBEFRSL is a British playwright.
Early life
Williams was born in
Fulham,
London, and 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
Theatre Royal Stratford East.[2] Williams has done work in television, including adapting his own play Fallout, and also co-wrote the script for the 2012 British film Fast Girls.
Unexpected Twist (based on the children's novel by
Michael Rosen) opens at the Royal & Derngate Theatre Northampton, followed by four-month UK theatre tour in 2023.