Reviews By

Reviews by

ALEXANDER WILLIAMS

is a singer, writer, teacher, actor and director. He hosts the What’s On Watford podcast and the Dial Up Open Mic events, and sings The Great American Songbook as Tiger Jazz. 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 a trustee of the Pump House Theatre, in 2021 he was in the Question Time 50, contributing to the BBC’s flagship political debate show. He reviews for Broadwaybaby.com, was resident poet for Humanistically Speaking Magazine (2021-2023), is resident reviewer for the Watford Fringe Festival (watfordfringereviews.blogspot.com), was a finalist in the Watford Audentior Awards 2022, won the Watford African Caribbean Association Innovation Award 2024 and was included in Cambridge LGBT+ Alumni Association’s Inaugural Q100 list (2024) recognising alumni who have contributed to EDI in their field or community. He led Watford’s celebration of the Borough Centenary, the Queen’s Jubilee, the Proclamation of King Charles III (2022) and the King’s Coronation (2023). 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: children’s book Wendy the Whale (Wynstone’s Press 2011); poetry collection Black Iris (Lulu 2014); young adult novel His Hidden Wings (TSL Books 2018); Little Willy, The Complete Works of 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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