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Roy Smiles is an English playwright and singer-songwriter from West London. He is also an occasional actor. Smiles is the author of 26 produced stage plays. He has had plays staged in the UK, US, Australia, South Africa, New Zealand, Israel, Slovakia and Sweden. As a singer-songwriter his first album ''Drunks & Dreamers'' was released in March 2011.〔http://grooveshark.com/#!/profile/Roy+Smiles/26110676/albums〕〔https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/drunks-dreamers/id423794033〕 His second album ''Time's Moving On'' was released in August 2012. His third album ''Seize The Day'' was released in June 2013.〔http://www.redadmiralrecords.com/〕〔http://grooveshark.com/#!/profile/Roy+Smiles/26110676〕 His fourth album ''Autumn Song'' was released in February 2014.〔http://www.jamendo.com/en/artist/435531/roy-smiles〕 A fifth album ''Bremen'' was released in August 2014.〔http://www.reverbnation.com/roysmiles/songs〕〔https://itunes.apple.com/gb/artist/roy-smiles/id423794043〕 A sixth album ''The Trains & The Rain'' was released in January 2015.''〔https://itunes.apple.com/gb/artist/roy-smiles/id423794043〕 Three compilations of his music: ''London Hymns'', ''Exile In Blue'' and ''Clancy's Song'' were released on I-Tunes in March 2015. As an actor he played the character of Itzak Heller in Roman Polanski's Oscar-winning film ''The Pianist''. His plays include ''Ying Tong - A Walk With The Goons'', ''Pythonesque'', ''Kurt & Sid'', ''Year of The Rat'', ''Bombing People'' and ''The Last Pilgrim''. ==Career== He started his career in Brighton as half of the sketch duo: Smiles & Kemp in between a variety of jobs as barman, cleaner, care assistant and club compere whilst trying to become a writer. His first produced play, ''Schmucks'', about a fictitious meeting between Groucho Marx and Lenny Bruce, was staged at the Battersea Arts Centre in 1992. Other early plays include: ''Top Of The Town'' (Kings Head Theatre 1992), ''Roberto Calvi Is Alive & Well'' (Finborough Theatre 1992), ''Idiot's Waltz'' (Finborough Theatre 1993), ''Danny Boy'' (Etcetera Theatre 1994), ''The Boys Of Summer'' (Old Red Lion Theatre 1995), ''The Promised Land'' (Kings Head Theatre 1995), ''Get It While You Can - A Conversation With Janis Joplin'' (Etcetera Theatre 1996), ''The Exiles'' (Hen & Chickens Theatre 1997), ''Stand Up'' (Old Red Lion Theatre 1999),〔http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/theatre-on-the-fringe-1084195.html〕 ''Bombing People'' (Jermyn Street Theatre 2000), ''Sick Dictators'' (Jermyn Street Theatre 2001) and ''Lunatics’ Tango'' (Hen & Chickens Theatre 2002).〔http://www.extemporetheatre.com/new-writing/lunatics-tango/〕 He won Guinness Fringe Theatre Awards in 1995 and 1996. During this time he supported himself with regular acting roles in television shows such as ''Operation Good Guys'' and ''Frank Stubbs Promotes''. In 2002 he played the role of Itzak Heller, a Jewish collaborator, in Roman Polanski's Oscar-winning movie ''The Pianist''. ''The Boys of Summer'', his play set in an Aids ward, was translated into Hebrew and staged successfully in Tel Aviv in 1999. He had a playwriting attachment to the Royal National Theatre in 2000. ''Bombing People'', about the Enola Gay and the dropping of the atom bomb, had its Swedish premiere at the Boras Stadsteater in 2003. ''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, produced by Michael Codron. It was later staged in the US, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa.〔http://www.theguardian.com/stage/2004/oct/29/theatre〕 ''The Ho-Ho Club'', Smiles’ play about the London Comedy Circuit, was staged at the Kings Head Theatre in 2006, starring Sally Lindsay.〔http://britishtheatreguide.info/reviews/hoho-rev〕 ''Good Evening (Behind The Beyond)'', the story of the Beyond The Fringe team, had its world premiere in South Africa in 2007.〔http://www.audible.co.uk/pd/Comedy/Good-Evening-Behind-Beyond-the-Fringe-Audiobook/B00740JD3Y〕 ''Ying Tong - A Walk With The Goons'' received its American premiere at the Wilma Theatre in Philadelphia in 2007.〔https://www.wilmatheater.org/archive/53/777〕 ''Year Of The Rat'', the story of George Orwell's attempts to write Nineteen Eighty Four, had its British premiere at the West Yorkshire Playhouse in 2008. Again produced by Michael Codron. It had three further productions in New Zealand.〔http://www.theatreview.org.nz/reviews/review.php?id=2102〕 ''Schmucks'' received its American premiere at the Wilma Theatre in Philadelphia in 2008.〔http://www.broadwayworld.com/philadelphia/article/Wilma-Theater-Presents-SCHMUCKS-A-Fictitious-Metting-Between-Marx-and-Bruce-20010101#.U96cMB9wa1s〕 ''Pythonesque'', an account of Graham Chapman's alcoholism and time in the Monty Python team, had its British premiere at the 2009 Edinburgh Festival.〔http://www.scotsman.com/news/theatre-review-pythonesque-1-766204〕 ''Kurt & Sid'', about Kurt Cobain's suicide, which starred Shaun Evans as Kurt Cobain and Danny Dyer as Sid Vicious, was staged at the Trafalgar Studios in London in 2009.〔http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/theatre-dance/reviews/kurt-and-sid-trafalgar-studios-london-1787797.html〕 ''Backstage'', Smiles’ screw-ball 1930s farce, had its world premiere at the Court Theatre in Christchurch, New Zealand in 2009.〔http://hlt.org.nz/whats-on/events-calendar/backstage/〕 ''The Last Pilgrim'', about Robert F. Kennedy's doomed bid for the US presidency in 1968, was staged at The White Bear Theatre in 2010.〔http://www.thestage.co.uk/reviews/review.php/29788/the-last-pilgrim〕 ''Burlesque'', a musical co-written with Adam Megiddo and dealing with the anti-communist witch-hunts in 1950s America, was staged at the Jermyn Street Theatre in 2011. It won Best Musical at the Off West End Awards in 2012. ''The Lad Himself'', about self-destructive British radio and TV comedian Tony Hancock, was staged at the 2012 Edinburgh Festival. It was revived at the 2015 Brighton Festival.〔http://www.fringereview.co.uk/fringeReview/4820.html〕 ''Plum'', a play about PG Wodehouse's infamous Berlin Broadcasts, had its world premiere at the Court Theatre in New Zealand in August 2014.〔http://www.theatreview.org.nz/reviews/production.php?id=4043〕〔http://www.theatreview.org.nz/reviews/review.php?id=7284〕 ''Reno'', a two-hander about the implosion of the marriage between Marilyn Monroe and Arthur Miller during the making of the film ''The Misfits'', had its UK premiere at The Rialto Theatre, Brighton, in December 2014. Monroe was played by Lauren Varnfield, and Miller by Robert Cohen. It was re-staged at the 2015 Brighton Festival.〔https://boxoffice.brightonfringe.org/theatre/9482/reno〕 Six of Smiles’ plays have been broadcast on BBC Radio 4: ''Ying Tong - A Walk With The Goons'', ''Good Evening (Behind The Beyond)'', ''Pythonesque'', ''Dear Arthur - Love John'',''Goodnight From Him'' 〔http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01slvvl〕 and ''Memories Of A Cad.''〔http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04vkjsm〕 ''Funny People'', Smiles’ book on his playwriting influences, was published by Oberon Books in 2011. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Roy Smiles」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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