Roy Smiles

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Roy Smiles
Born	1966 (age 54–55) London, England
Occupation	Dramatist, playwright, songwriter
Years active	1987–present
Website	https://roysmiles.bandcamp.com

Roy Smiles (born 1966) is a singer-songwriter & playwright from Ealing, West London. He is also an occasional actor.

Smiles has written twenty six theatre plays & six radio plays, the best known of which is Kurt and Sid, a 2009 London West End production about the fictional meeting of Sid Vicious and Kurt Cobain.^[1] He has released eight albums of songs:^[2] Drunks & Dreamers,^[3] Time's Moving On, Seize The Day, Autumn Song, Bremen, The Trains & The Rain, Northern Angels & Lost Souls.^[4]

Career[]

His first play staged in 1992 at the Battersea Arts Centre, Schmucks ^[5]was about a fictitious meeting between Groucho Marx and Lenny Bruce.^{[citation needed]}

In 2002 he played the role of Itzak Heller, a Jewish collaborator, in Roman Polanski's The Pianist.^{[citation needed]}

Smiles's stage and radio plays focus largely on biographical subjects such as Albert Camus (The Weight Of Days),^[6] Evelyn Waugh (Waugh in Winter),^[7] the Beyond The Fringe team (Good Evening),^[8] Arthur Miller/Marilyn Monroe (Reno),^[9] George Orwell (Year of the Rat),^[10] Tony Hancock (The Lad Himself),^[11] Robert F. Kennedy (The Last Pilgrim),^[12] PG Woodhouse (Plum)^[13] and the Enola Gay (Bombing People). A number of his plays have debuted or transferred to theatres around the world, such as Pythonesque,^[14] the story of the Monty Python team, which opened in South Africa before moving to Edinburgh as part of the Fringe Festival.^[15] Ying Tong – A Walk with the Goons, the story of Spike Milligan's nervous breakdown whilst writing The Goon Show, was staged at West Yorkshire Playhouse in 2004, transferring the following year to the New Ambassadors Theatre in London's West End before touring the US, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa.^[16][17] Six of his plays have been broadcast on BBC Radio 4. Year of the Rat,^[18] Ying Tong , Pythonesque and Kurt & Sid are published by Oberon Books.^[19] Ten Plays by Roy Smiles was published by Oberon Books in 2018.^[20] Two compilations of songs: Go Gently (Best Of) & A Land Called Home (Best Of II) were released on Spotify in 2021.

Plays[]

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References[]

External links[]

• Roy Smiles at IMDb