Rewriting and holding on to your vision of the play.
This session will explore the sometimes difficult undertaking of moving your play beyond that initial draft and onto the next stages whilst ensuring that your original vision and intentions for a play remain core to the rewriting, when often being asked to take feedback from multiple different places.
About Roy Williams
Roy Williams is a leading playwright, dramatist and screenwriter In 2000 he was the joint-winner of the George Devine Award and in 2001 he was awarded the Evening Standard Award for Most Promising Playwright. He was awarded an OBE for Services to Drama in the 2008 Birthday Honours List. His plays include an adaptation of The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (Pilot Theatre/UK tour); Sucker Punch (Royal Court – Olivier Award nomination for Best Play, Joint winner Alfred Fagon Award 2010); Category B (Kiln); Angel House (Eclipse Theatre/UK tour); Days of Significance (RSC); Joe Guy (Soho Theatre/Tiata Fahodzi); There’s Only One Wayne Matthews (Polka Theatre); Baby Girl (National Theatre Connections); Wildefire (Hampstead Theatre) Absolute Beginners (Lyric Hammersmith); Little Sweet Thing (Nottingham Playhouse/Eclipse Theatre UK tour); Slow Time (National Theatre Education); Fallout (Royal Court); Sing Yer Heart Out For the Lads (National Theatre); Clubland (Royal Court); The Gift (Birmingham Rep/Tricycle); Local Boy (Hampstead Theatre); Lift Off (Royal Court); Starstruck (Tricycle – Winner of John Whiting Award, Alfred Fagon Award, 1997); The No-Boys Cricket Club and Kingston 14 (both Theatre Royal, Stratford East); an adaptation of Antigone (Pilot Theatre/UK tour); Soul: The Untold Story of Marvin Gaye (Royal & Derngate Northampton/Hackney Empire co-production) The Firm (Hampstead Theatre Downstairs) Death Of England (National Theatre) Death Of England: Delroy (National Theatre). Radio work includes adaptations of ER Braithwaite’s A Choice of Straws and To Sir With Love, John Wyndham’s The Midwich Cuckoos, The Likes of Us (Radio 3), as well as eight series of The Interrogation for BBC Radio 4. TV and film work includes Fallout (Channel 4); Babyfather (BBC); Offside (BBC), Let It Snow (Sky One); Soon Gone: The Windrush Chronicles (BBC); and Fast Girls (DJ Films).
About Theatre503
Theatre503 is the national theatre for debut playwrights and the artists who bring their words to life. We play a vital role in the theatre ecology by helping diverse new voices reach the first rung on the artistic career ladder. We are experts in developing, launching and transforming the next generation of leading writers across stage and screen.
We have nurtured modern classics such as The Mountaintop by Katori Hall and Rotterdam by Jon Brittain – both Olivier Award winners – and classics in the making like Yasmin Joseph’s J’Ouvert, winner of the 2020 James Tait Black Prize, and Ross Willis’ Wolfie, winner of the 2020 Writers Guild Award for Best New Play. Theatre503 alumni have written for Succession, Doctor Who, Killing Eve, Normal People and One Day.
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Roy Williams
Roy Williams
Roy Williams is a leading playwright, dramatist and screenwriter In 2000 he was the joint-winner of the George Devine Award and in 2001 he was awarded the Evening Standard Award for Most Promising Playwright. He was awarded an OBE for Services to Drama in the 2008 Birthday Honours List. His plays include an adaptation of The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (Pilot Theatre/UK tour); Sucker Punch (Royal Court – Olivier Award nomination for Best Play, Joint winner Alfred Fagon Award 2010); Category B (Kiln); Angel House (Eclipse Theatre/UK tour); Days of Significance (RSC); Joe Guy (Soho Theatre/Tiata Fahodzi); There’s Only One Wayne Matthews (Polka Theatre); Baby Girl (National Theatre Connections); Wildefire (Hampstead Theatre) Absolute Beginners (Lyric Hammersmith); Little Sweet Thing (Nottingham Playhouse/Eclipse Theatre UK tour); Slow Time (National Theatre Education); Fallout (Royal Court); Sing Yer Heart Out For the Lads (National Theatre); Clubland (Royal Court); The Gift (Birmingham Rep/Tricycle); Local Boy (Hampstead Theatre); Lift Off (Royal Court); Starstruck (Tricycle – Winner of John Whiting Award, Alfred Fagon Award, 1997); The No-Boys Cricket Club and Kingston 14 (both Theatre Royal, Stratford East); an adaptation of Antigone (Pilot Theatre/UK tour); Soul: The Untold Story of Marvin Gaye (Royal & Derngate Northampton/Hackney Empire co-production) The Firm (Hampstead Theatre Downstairs) Death Of England (National Theatre) Death Of England: Delroy (National Theatre). Radio work includes adaptations of ER Braithwaite’s A Choice of Straws and To Sir With Love, John Wyndham’s The Midwich Cuckoos, The Likes of Us (Radio 3), as well as eight series of The Interrogation for BBC Radio 4. TV and film work includes Fallout (Channel 4); Babyfather (BBC); Offside (BBC), Let It Snow (Sky One); Soon Gone: The Windrush Chronicles (BBC); and Fast Girls (DJ Films).
