Roy Smiles

Smiles has written twenty six theatre 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. He has released eight albums of self-penned songs.

Smiles's stage and radio plays focus largely on biographical subjects such as Albert Camus (The Weight Of Days), Evelyn Waugh (Waugh In Winter), the Beyond The Fringe team (Good Evening), Arthur Miller/Marilyn Monroe (Reno), George Orwell (Year Of The Rat), Tony Hancock (The Lad Himself), Robert F. Kennedy (The Last Pilgrim), PG Woodhouse (Plum) and the Enola Gay (Bombing People). A number of his plays have debuted or transferred to theatres around the world, such as Pythonesque, the story of the Monty Python team, which opened in South Africa before moving to Edinburgh as part of the Fringe Festival. 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. Six of his plays have been broadcast on BBC Radio 4. Year Of The Rat, Ying Tong, Pythonesque and Kurt & Sid are published by Oberon Books. Ten Plays by Roy Smiles was published by Oberon Books in 2018.

In 2002 he played the role of Itzak Heller, a Jewish collaborator, in Roman Polanski's The Pianist.

His first play staged in 1992 at the Battersea Arts Centre, Schmucks was about a fictitious meeting between Groucho Marx and Lenny Bruce.