Background
He was born at Newport, Wales, and brought up in Carmarthen.
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Roger Williams
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He graduated in 1995 from the University of Warwick with a degree in English and American Literature.
Career
His work often examines aspects of modern Welsh life, such as the place of minority languages, the plight of declining industrial communities and the Cardiff gay scene. His theatre work includes:
Surfing, Carmarthen Bay (1995)
Love in Aberdare (1997)
Gulp (1997)
Calon Lân (1997)
Saturday Night Forever (1998)
Killing Kangaroos (1999)
People’s (2000)
Y Byd (A"i Brawd) (2004)
Maine, a Giant (2005)
Mother Tongue (2005)
"Kapow!" (2006)
"Tir Sir Gâr" (2013)
In 2002, his work Tales from the Pleasure Beach, screened on British Broadcasting Corporation Two, was nominated for a British Academy of Film and Television Arts Award in the Best Drama Series category. He has also written episodes of "Hollyoaks" (Channel 4), "The Story of Tracy Beaker" (British Broadcasting Corporation), "The Bench" (British Broadcasting Corporation Wales), "Citizens!" (British Broadcasting Corporation Wales) and many episodes of the daily Welsh-language soap opera Pobol y Cwm which is broadcast on S4C. In 2012 he established the production company Joio.
The company"s first production was the film "Tir" for S4C.
