Juliet Gilkes Romero
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 within the New Works Department. Her notable awards include the 2020 Alfred Fagon Award for Best New Play with The Whip, the Roland Rees Bursary 2019, the Writers Guild of Great Britain Best play Award 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.
Of Trinidadian 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 GazaBBC World Service Alexander Onassis Research Bursary
In 2019, she won the Roland Rees Bursary, named in honour of the co-founder of the Alfred Fagon Award.
In 2020, she was the recipient of the Alfred Fagon Award for Best New Play with ''The Whip''
Plays
Bilad Al-Sudan at the Tricycle Theatre as part of its 2006 season dealing with genocidal conflict in Darfur, 2006.At The Gates of Gaza, Birmingham Repertory Theatre & tourUpper Cut at the Southwark Playhouse 2015Day of The Living 2018The Whip at the RSC's Swan Theatre 2020- The Gift 2020