Death of England: Delroy

About Clint DyerRoy Williams

Roy Williams OBE worked as an actor before turning to writing full-time in 1990. He graduated from Rose Bruford in 1995 with a first class BA Hons degree in Writing and participated in the 1997 Carlton Television screenwriter's course. The No Boys Cricket Club (Theatre Royal Stratford East 1996) won him nominations for the TAPS Writer of the Year Award 1996 and for New Writer of the Year Award 1996 by the Writers' Guild of Great Britain. He was the first recipient of the Alfred Fagon Award 1997 for Starstruck (Tricycle Theatre London 1998) which also won the 31st John Whiting Award and the EMMA Award 1999. Lift Off (Royal Court Theatre Upstairs 1999) was the joint winner of the George Devine Award 2000. His other plays include: Night and Day (Theatre Venture 1996); Josie's Boys (Red Ladder Theatre Co. 1996); Souls (Theatre Centre 1999); Local Boy (Hampstead Theatre 2000); The Gift (Birmingham Rep/Tricycle Theatre 2000); Clubland (Royal Court 2001) winner of the Evening Standard Charles Wintour Award for the Most Promising Playwright; Fallout (Royal Court Theatre 2003) which was made for television by Company Pictures/Channel 4; Sing Yer Heart Out for the Lads (National Theatre 2002 2004) Little Sweet Thing (New Wolsey Ipswich/ Nottingham Playhouse/Birmingham Rep 2005) Slow Time (National Theatre Education Department tour 2005) Days of Significance (Swan Theatre Stratfordupon- Avon 2007) Absolute Beginners (Lyric Theatre Hammersmith 2007) Joe Guy (Tiata Fahodzi/Soho Theatre 2007) Baby Girl (National Theatre 2007) Out of the Fog (Almeida Theatre 2007) There's Only One Wayne Matthews (Polka Theatre 2007) Category B (Tricycle Theatre 2009) and Sucker Punch (Royal Court 2010). He also contributed A Chain Play (Almeida Theatre 2007) and Sixty Six (Bush Theatre 2011). His screenplays include Offside winner of a BAFTA for Best Schools Drama 2002. His radio plays include Tell Tale Homeboys Westway which was broadcast as part of Radio 4 First Bite Young Writers' Festival To Sir with Love and The Interrogation. He also wrote Babyfather for BBC TV. He was awarded the OBE for Services to Drama in the 2008 Birthday Honours List. Clint Dyer: On stage he has worked with heralded directors like Mike Leigh Simon Mcburney Dominic Cooke Micheal Attenbourgh Jane Howel Ian Brown Mike Bradwell Madani Yohonis Gbolahan Obesisan Dawn Walton and the legendary Philip Hedley etc. He starred on stage in the National Theatres Oliver winning show Ma Raineys Black Bottom directed by Dominic Cook for which he won best actor in the I.A.R.Awards. Clint won Best actor at the British Urban Film Awards Screen Nation Film and Television Awards Liege International Film Festival and The Texas Black Film Festival for SUS . He was also nominated for the Independent Spirit Award at the Screen Nation Film and Television Awards for SUS. Clint directed the Olivier Evening Standard TMA and Whats On Theatre Goers nominated show THE BIG LIFE at TRSE bringing it to the Apollo Theatre on Shaftesbury Avenue makingmit the first Black British musical to go the West End. Also the soon to be seen The Happy Tragedy Of Being Woke which Clint has written and will co-direct with Simon Mcburney for Complicite. Alongside this he is currently development with the BFI on a Raquel Delahay script called Ciara. As a writer Clint is under commission with BBC Films Theatre Royal Stratford East and The Royal National Theatre.