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.[1] Juliet is the recipient of the 2020 Alfred Fagon Award for Best New Play with The Whip,[2] the Roland Rees Bursary 2019[3] (named in honour of the co-founder of the Alfred Fagon Award), the Writers Guild of Great Britain Best play Award[4] 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 Ethiopia, Cuba, Haiti and the Dominican Republic.

She gained a master's degree in Writing for Performance from Goldsmiths, University of London in 2001. Gilkes Romero was a Creative Fellow at the University of Birmingham in 2018.[5]

Of Caribbean descent, Juliet Gilkes Romero was born in East London and grew up in Suffolk.

Awards and honours

2009 Writers' Guild Award for At the Gates of Gaza[6]

BBC World Service Alexander Onassis Research Bursary

In 2019, she won the Roland Rees Bursary,[7] named in honour of the co-founder of the Alfred Fagon Award.

In 2020 she was the recipient of the Alfred Fagon Award[8] for Best New Play with The Whip[9]

Plays

  • Bilad Al-Sudan at the Tricycle Theatre (now Kiln) as part of its 2006 season dealing with genocidal conflict in Darfur, 2006.
  • At The Gates of Gaza, Birmingham Repertory Theatre & tour
  • Upper Cut at the Southwark Playhouse 2015
  • Day of The Living (as part of RSC's Mischief Festival 2018 with Darren Clark and Amy Draper) 2018
  • The Whip[10] at the RSC's Swan Theatre 2020
  • The Gift (a retelling of Medea filmed for Jermyn Street Theatre’s 15 Heroines of Greek Tragedy season[11]) 2020

Screen and Audio

References

  1. ↑ "Writer: Juliet Gilkes Romero". Lisa Richards Creatives.
  2. ↑ "The RSC's The Whip".
  3. ↑ "Roland Rees Bursary".
  4. ↑ "Writers' Guild Awards 2009".
  5. ↑ "Juliet Gilkes Romero, Creative Fellow 2018". June 2018.
  6. ↑ "Writers' Guild Awards 2009".
  7. ↑ "The Roland Rees Bursary". November 2019.
  8. ↑ "2020 Alfred Fagon Award".
  9. ↑ "Juliet Gilkes Romero wins award for The Whip". 25 November 2020.
  10. ↑ "The Whip". June 2020.
  11. ↑ "15 Heroines". November 2020.
  12. ↑ "Soon Gone, a Windrush Chronicle".
  13. ↑ "One Hot Summer". May 2019.


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