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. TheNo 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 forStarstruck(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) andSucker Punch(Royal Court, 2010). He also contributedA Chain Play(Almeida Theatre, 2007) andSixty Six(Bush Theatre, 2011). His screenplays includeOffside, winner of a BAFTA for Best Schools Drama 2002. His radio plays includeTell Tale,Homeboys,Westway, which was broadcast as part of Radio 4 First Bite Young Writers' Festival,To Sir with Love, andThe Interrogation. He also wroteBabyfatherfor BBC TV. He was awarded the OBE for Services to Drama in the 2008 Birthday Honours List.

Clint Dyeris Deputy Artistic Director of the National Theatre and an award-winning writer, director and actor. He was the first black director to directOthelloat a major UK theatre. Recent credits include the BAFTA-nominatedDeath of England, and, in the West End,Get Up, Stand Up!