Roy Williams worked as an actor before turning to writing full-time in 1990. He graduated from Rose Bruford in 1995 with a first class BA Hons degree in Writing and participated in the 1997 Carlton Television screenwriter’s course.

Roy went on to write numerous plays and scrennplays, earning nominations for the TAPS Writer of the Year Award 1996 and New Writer of the Year Award in the same year by the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain.

His screenplay Offside won a BAFTA for Best Schools Drama in 2002 and Roy was awarded the OBE for Services to Drama in the 2008 Birthday Honours List.