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Juliet Gilkes Romero

JULIET GILKES ROMERO

  
Nationality:    British
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Literary Agent:    The Agency (London) Ltd  represented by Fay Davies

Juliet is of Caribbean descent, was born in East London and grew up in Suffolk. She has been a television journalist with the BBC for many years reporting from countries including Cuba, Ethiopia, Haiti and the Dominican Republic but left the corporation last year to become a full-time writer. Juliet's new play UPPER CUT received a rehearsed reading at the TARA Theatre last year, and will run at Southwark Playhouse in January, directed by Lotte Wakeham. Her play RAZING CANE was shortlisted for the Alfred Fagon Award. ONE HOT SUMMER, a radio play, aired as an Afternoon Play on BBC Radio4 in 2012. In 2009 Juliet won the Best Play Award at the Writers' Guild of Great Britain Award for her play AT THE GATES OF GAZA (Birmingham Rep and UK tour '08). Juliet was part of Hampstead Theatre's Writers' Attachment Scheme and wrote SERGINE performed at An Evening for Haiti fundraising event there in January 2010. Juliet has a Masters Degree in Writing for Performance from Goldsmiths University (2001), UCLA Extension Writers' Programme, Los Angeles (1998) and was the recipient of the BBC's Alexander Onassis Bursary (1997).

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below is a list of Juliet Gilkes Romero's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         At the Gates Of Gaza         Brethren, Good Iago         Diesel         How Long is Never? - Darfur - A Response         Razing Cane         Upper Cut

At the Gates Of Gaza

At the Gates Of Gaza
Stranded in the battlefields of the Holy Land during the Great War, a battalion of West Indian volunteers fight for the Empire, the King and the Mother Land. their long search for identity and honour falls apart as the fragile hopes of young lives, both black and white, explode and shatter as betrayal and race take their toll. At the Gates Of Gaza is a highly charged, emotional and gripping look at a world in the midst of change.

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won the UK Writers Guild Award for best play 2009

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Big Creative Ideas in association with Birmingham Repertory theatr

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Oberon Books (2014) >>>    978-1783191734

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Brethren, Good Iago

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Diesel

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developed on attachment at the Royal National Theatre Studio

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How Long is Never? - Darfur - A Response

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Part of "How Long Is Never? A Response To Dafur", An evening of new short plays And discussion. "A potent reminder that theatre, Among its myriad other functions, has A misiion to inform . . . the result is An engrossing evening that both heightens our understanding of Darfur And outlines the moral And political dilEmma it poses in the strakest possible terms" ~ the Guardian

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political theatre

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Razing Cane

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shortlisted for the Alfred Fagon Award

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Upper Cut

Upper Cut
Seventy percent of my constituents are white, Karen. I have to be a politician, who 'happens' to be black. Not a black man who 'happens' to be a politician. Karen loves politics. She's a rising star but on the eve of a general election she risks her career and reputation in a bitter and contentious fight over whether to allow short lists for black Parliamentary candidates. Deselected by her party, and betrayed by the men she loves, Karen must embark on a relentless road to power and political redemption. Provocative and raw, Upper Cut unravels the fight for diversity and black representation through today's coalition politics, the hope and rebirth of New Labour and delves into the troubled heart of a Labour party struggling under the might of Thatcher's Tory revolution.Upper Cut is inspired by true political events.

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W14 Productions

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Oberon Books (2015) >>>    978-1783191727

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