Juliet Gilkes Romero Explained

Juliet Gilkes Romero is a writer for stage and screen.

Life

Juliet Gilkes Romero is a British writer for stage and screen currently serving as Writer in Residence at the National Theatre (2022/2023) within the New Works Department.^[1] Her notable awards include 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.

Previously, Juliet worked as a BBC foreign affairs reporter and producer for BBC World Service Radio and BBC World TV, reporting from countries including Ethiopia, Cuba, Haiti and the Dominican Republic.

She holds a master's degree in Writing for Performance from Goldsmiths, University of London in 2001 and 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

• Soon Gone; A Windrush Chronicle^[12] co-produced by Sir Lenny Henry’s production company Douglas Road and the Young Vic Theatre
• One Hot Summer^[13] broadcast on BBC Radio 4

External links

• Juliet Gilkes Romero
• Lisa Richards Creatives

Notes and References

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