Ross Willis

Ross is an award-winning playwright from Bristol. His debut play WOLFIE premiered at Theatre503 to critical acclaim setting him out as “a fresh and fearless voice” in British theatre. The play won Best New Play at both the Writers’ Guild Awards and the Off-West End Awards and also earned him a nomination for Best Writer at the Stage Debut Awards and Most Promising Playwright in the Evening Standard Theatre Awards. 

Ross' next play WONDER BOY premiered at the Bristol Old Vic in March 2022 directed by Sally Cookson and won a Writers' Guild Award for Best Play. The production then returned in 2024 for a UK Tour. In spring 2025 Ross's gnarly, adrenaline-fueled adventure THE LEFTBEHINDS, co-created with Ned Bennett, goes out on a National Theatre Schools Tour across the UK. 

Ross won the 2019 Royal Court and Kudos Fellowship, the 2019 Channel 4 Playwright Award and the 2020 Jerwood New Playwright Award. He was an Associate Artist at Pentbabus Theatre Company and he is currently under commission to the Royal Court, Soho Theatre, Paines Plough, English Touring Theatre, The Almeida Theatre, Sonia Friedman Productions and the National Theatre.