Juliet Gilkes Romero is a writer for stage and screen.

Life

Juliet Gilkes Romero is a British writer for stage and screen. She is Writer in Residence at the National Theatre 2022/2023 attached to the New Works Department. Juliet is the recipient of the 2020

Alfred Fagon Award The Alfred Fagon Award is granted annually for the best new play by a Black British playwright of Caribbean or African descent, resident in the United Kingdom. It was instituted in 1996 and first awarded in 1997, to recognise the work of Black Brit ...

for Best New Play with The Whip, the Roland Rees Bursary 2019 (named in honour of the co-founder of the Alfred Fagon Award), the Writers Guild of Great Britain Best play Award 2009 with ''At The Gates of Gaza'' and the BBC World Service Alexander Onassis Research Bursary. Juliet's earlier work as a BBC foreign affairs reporter and producer for BBC World Service Radio and BBC World TV saw her reporting from countries including

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Haiti Haiti (; ht, Ayiti ; French: ), officially the Republic of Haiti (); ) and formerly known as Hayti, is a country located on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean Sea, east of Cuba and Jamaica, and ...

and the

Dominican Republic The Dominican Republic ( ; es, República Dominicana, ) is a country located on the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles archipelago of the Caribbean region. It occupies the eastern five-eighths of the island, which it shares wit ...

. She gained a master's degree in Writing for Performance from

Goldsmiths, University of London Goldsmiths, University of London, officially the Goldsmiths' College, is a constituent research university of the University of London in England. It was originally founded in 1891 as The Goldsmiths' Technical and Recreative Institute by the Wor ...

in 2001. Gilkes Romero was a Creative Fellow at the

University of Birmingham , mottoeng = Through efforts to heights , established = 1825 – Birmingham School of Medicine and Surgery1836 – Birmingham Royal School of Medicine and Surgery1843 – Queen's College1875 – Mason Science College1898 – Mason Univers ...

in 2018. Of Caribbean descent, Juliet Gilkes Romero was born in

East London East or Orient is one of the four cardinal directions or points of the compass. It is the opposite direction from west and is the direction from which the Sun rises on the Earth. Etymology As in other languages, the word is formed from the f ...

and grew up in

Suffolk Suffolk () is a ceremonial county of England in East Anglia. It borders Norfolk to the north, Cambridgeshire to the west and Essex to the south; the North Sea lies to the east. The county town is Ipswich; other important towns include Lowes ...

Awards and honours

2009 Writers' Guild Award for ''At the Gates of Gaza'' BBC World Service Alexander Onassis Research Bursary In 2019, she won the Roland Rees Bursary, named in honour of the co-founder of the

. In 2020 she was the recipient of the

for Best New Play with ''The Whip''

Plays

* ''Bilad Al-Sudan'' at the

Tricycle Theatre The Kiln Theatre (formerly the Tricycle Theatre) is a theatre located in Kilburn, in the London Borough of Brent, England. Since 1980, the theatre has presented a wide range of plays reflecting the cultural diversity of the area, as well as ...

(now Kiln) as part of its 2006 season dealing with genocidal conflict in Darfur, 2006. * ''At The Gates of Gaza,''

Birmingham Repertory Theatre Birmingham Repertory Theatre, commonly called Birmingham Rep or just The Rep, is a producing theatre based on Centenary Square in Birmingham, England. Founded by Barry Jackson, it is the longest-established of Britain's building-based theatre c ...

& tour * ''Upper Cut'' at the

Southwark Playhouse Southwark Playhouse is a theatre in London, located between Borough and Elephant and Castle tube stations. History The Southwark Playhouse Theatre Company was founded in 1993 by Juliet Alderdice and Tom Wilson. They identified the need for a h ...

2015 * ''Day of The Living'' (as part of RSC's Mischief Festival 2018 with Darren Clark and Amy Draper) 2018 * ''The Whip'' at the RSC's Swan Theatre 2020 *''The Gift'' (a retelling of Medea filmed for

Jermyn Street Theatre Jermyn Street Theatre is a performance venue situated on Jermyn Street, in London's West End. It is an off-west end studio theatre. History Jermyn Street Theatre opened in August 1994. It was formerly the changing rooms for staff at a Spaghetti ...

’s 15 Heroines of Greek Tragedy season) 2020

Screen and Audio

* ''Soon Gone; A Windrush Chronicle'' co-produced by

Sir Lenny Henry Sir Lenworth George Henry (born 29 August 1958) is a British actor, comedian, singer, television presenter and writer. Henry gained success as a stand-up comedian and impressionist in the late 1970s and early 1980s, culminating in ''The Lenn ...

’s production company Douglas Road and the

Young Vic Theatre The Young Vic Theatre is a performing arts venue located on The Cut, near the South Bank, in the London Borough of Lambeth. The Young Vic was established by Frank Dunlop in 1970. Kwame Kwei-Armah has been Artistic Director since February 2018 ...

* ''One Hot Summer'' broadcast on BBC Radio 4

References

External links

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