Roy Samuel Williams is a British playwright. 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. In 1992, he took a theatre-writing degree at Rose Bruford College and has worked ever since as a writer. His first full-length play was The No Boys Cricket Club, which premiered in 1996 at Theatre Royal Stratford East. Williams has done work in television, including adapting his own play Fallout, and also co-wrote the script for the 2012 British film Fast Girls. Awards 1996. Writers Guild of Great Britain award nomination for Best new writer of the year. For The No Boys Cricket Club. 1997. First recipient of the Alfred Fagon Award for Starstruck. 1999. Winner of The Joh Whiting Award for most promising playwright for Starstruck 1999. Winner of The Emma Award for best Theatre play, Starstruck. 2000. Joint winner of the George Devine Award for most promising playwright for Lift Off. 2001. Winner of The Of the Most Promising playwright Award at the Evening Standard Theatre Awards for Clubland 2002. Winner of the BAFTA award for best schools drama Offside. 2003. Best play nomination at the Evening Standard Theatre awards for Fallout. 2003. Winner of The Arts Council Decibel Award at the South Bank Awards for Fallout 2005. Best play for young people nomination for Little Sweet Thing for the UK theatre Awards. 2008. Awarded an OBE by her Majesty The Queen for services to drama. 2009 Winner at the Screen Nation awards for achievement in screenwriting for Fallout. 2010. Best play nomination at the Evening Standard Theatre awards for Sucker Punch 2010. Joint Winner of the Alfred Fagon award for Sucker Punch 2011. Best play nomination art The Olivier awards for Sucker Punch 2011. Winner of The Best Play at the Writers Guild of Great Britain Awards for Sucker Punch 2019. Winner of Diversity in Drama TV production for Soon Gone, Windrush Chronicle 2019. Winner of Content Innovation for Best Short firm