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Roy Samuel Williams OBE FRSL (born January 1968) is an English playwright.[1] Williams has won 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 for services to drama[2] and sits on the board of trustees for Theatre Centre.[3] In 2018, he was a made a fellow of The Royal Society of Literature.[4]

Roy Williams OBE FRSL
Born	Roy Samuel Williams January 1968 (age 54) Fulham, London, England
Occupation	Playwright
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Early life

Williams was born in Fulham 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 US. 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 Kinch ran. After leaving school at the age of 18 Williams did various jobs, including working in McDonald's and in a props warehouse. He was 25 years old when he took a theatre-writing degree at Rose Bruford College and has worked ever since as a writer.[5]

His first full-length play was The No Boys Cricket Club, which premiered in 1996 at Theatre Royal Stratford East.[6] Williams has done work in television, including adapting his own play Fallout, and also co-wrote the script for the 2014 British film Fast Girls.

Awards

Williams has won the Alfred Fagon Award twice; in 1996, for Starstruck, and in 2010, for Sucker Punch.[7][8]

In 2011, he received the Best Play award for Sucker Punch at the Writers Guild Awards.

In 2020, he received an RTS nomination for Best Writer for Drama and a BAFTA nomination for Best Short Form Drama, both for Soon Gone: A Windrush Chronicle (Episode 1:7, 'Cyrus', shown on the BBC in 2019.)

Work

His plays include:

• No Boys Cricket Club (1996), Theatre Royal Stratford East
• Starstruck (1998)
• Lift Off (1999)
• Local Boy (2000)
• The Gift (2000)
• Souls (2000)
• Clubland (2001), Royal Court Theatre upstairs[9]
• Sing Yer Heart Out For The Lads (2002), National Theatre[10]
• Fallout (2003), Royal Court Theatre downstairs[11]
• Joe Guy (2007)
• Days of Significance (2007)
• Baby Girl (2007), National Theatre, part of the Connections season[12]
• Sucker Punch (2010), Royal Court Theatre downstairs[13]
• A contribution to Sixty-Six Books (multi-authored piece) (2011), Bush Theatre[14]
• The Interrogation (three-play series) (2012), BBC Radio 4
• Advice for the Young at Heart (2013), Theatre Centre[15]

Kingston 14, Theatre Royal Stratford East, 2014.

• Wildefire, Hampstead Theatre (2014)[16]
• 'Soul: Royal & Derngate/Hackney Empire, (2016)[17]

The Firm, Hampstead Theatre, 2017, returning for a second run in 2019.

• Death of England with Clint Dyer (2020)[18]
• Death of England: Delroy with Clint Dyer (2020)[19]

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