Roy Minton

Roy Minton (born in Nottingham, England) is an English playwright best known for Scum and his other work with Alan Clarke. He is notable for having written over 30 one-off scripts for London Weekend Television, Rediffusion, BBC, ATV, Granada, Thames Television and Yorkshire Television, including Sling Your Hook, Horace, Funny Farm, Scum, Goodnight Albert, and The Hunting of Lionel Crane. He has translated and performed several of his plays overseas and at festivals in the UK, including a reading of his play for Scum at the Royal Shakespeare Company, London; and Gradual Decline at the Riverside Studios London. In 2023 Minton's friend the Irish actor and author Eugene O'Hare acted as intermediary in transferring Minton's literary archive to Nottingham University Library where it will be given a permanent collection. The archive includes unseen novels, an autobiography, and a follow-up screenplay to 'Scum' Minton had been unwell and died on the morning of 17th August 2024 in North London.