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William Ivory will perform his monologue Harry Daft Wins the FA Cup. He will also answer questions from the audience.  William is a leading writer for film and TV. He was Visiting Professor on the NTU MA Creative Writing from 2013-2019, and remains a guest lecturer on the MA and friend of the department. His feature-length films have premiered internationally and won a number of awards. He is also the author of a number of stage plays and television dramas. His work ranges from crime (The Sins), to comedy (The Invisibles and Common as Muck), to historical drama (Night Flight), and adaptation (Women in Love). He has received major critical success for his work, with his seven-part series, The Sins, winning The Edgar Allan Poe Award in New York, and his television drama, Journey to Knock, winning Best Screenplay and Best Single Drama at the European Television awards, as well as Best Original Screenplay at the New York Television Festival. He also received outstanding critical acclaim from his feature film Made in Dagenham (2010), starring Bob Hoskins, Miranda Richardson and Sally Hawkins, winning Best Screenplay and Best Feature at Dinard Film Festival and Best Film at The Variety Club of Great Britain Awards. His film Torvill and Dean was on ITV1 on Christmas Day 2018, and his Mike and Rochelle was on Channel 4 in 2020. In 2019, he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by NTU.  

Support will come from: 

Paul Adey, a hip hop artist who records and performs as Cappo. Paul is completing a Midlands4Cities-funded PhD at NTU, on literary allusion and intertextuality in hip hop lyricism.  And there will also be monologues from Lesley Walker, Jade Curley and Teya Z. Dancer, three excellent students on the MA Creative Writing.  

The event will be chaired by Zachary Omitowoju, a BA Media Production student at NTU, who is the research assistant for Nottingham Creative Writing Hub.

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