Juliet Gilkes Romero is a writer for stage and screen.
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.
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]