Reviews By

Reviews by

ALEXANDER WILLIAMS

Alexander is a singer, writer, teacher, actor and director. He hosts the award-winning What’s On Watford podcast (WACA Innovation Award 2024) and the popular Dial Up Open Mic events. He featured on C4’s The Piano at Heathrow airport as his Great American Songbook singing alter ego Tiger Jazz. He currently tours his one man musical Love in Slough around the UK. Twice part of The Royal Court’s Young Writer’s groups, he’s an alumni of Penguin Books’ WriteNow Diversity in Publishing program. A Patron of Proud Watford and Ambassador for HERTS Pride, he was included in Cambridge LGBT+ Alumni Association’s Inaugural Q100 list (2024) celebrating alumni who have contributed to EDI in their community. He’s a Trustee of the Pump House Theatre and the Arts Includes Foundation. In 2021 he was in the Question Time 50, contributing to the BBC’s flagship political debate show. He reviews for Broadwaybaby.com and his own platform (watfordfringereviews.blogspot.com), was resident poet for Humanistically Speaking Magazine (2021-2023), and was a finalist in the Watford Audentior Awards 2022. He led Watford’s celebration of the Borough Centenary, Queen’s Jubilee, Proclamation of King Charles III and King’s Coronation. He directed Andrew Sharpe’s House at the End of Empire (Pump House Theatre 2022 & 2023, Bossanyi Studio 2023) and Neil Maxfield’s Gotta Have Faith (Etcetera Theatre 2024). Books include: Wendy the Whale (Wynstone’s Press 2011); Black Iris (Lulu 2014); His Hidden Wings (TSL Books 2018); Little Willy, The Complete Shakespeare in Limerick Form (KDP 2021); Secular Verses (KDP 2021); Where We Find Ourselves (Arachne Press 2021); Joy//Us (Arachne Press 2024). Plays include: Thyestes (Battersea Arts Centre 2008, published KDP 2021); Ophelia (Old Red Lion 2009); Dinner and a Doughnut (Scriptspace 2012); One Day On The Train (Scripted at Southwark Playhouse 2012); Stronger (Talawa Hotspots 2012); Ten Dates (Bossanyi Studio 2014, Attico Arts Café 2016, London Improv Theatre 2017); Gust (Pen Fed Festival 2017); Angelique (Shaw Theatre 2019); The Lost Children, a musical for schools.

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