Meet the most exciting playwright in Britain today

Sprawled on a chair on the upstairs stage at the Royal Court, Ryan Calais Cameron cuts an unassuming figure for someone who’s arguably the most exciting playwright of recent times. Last year he scored a must-see hit at north London’s Kiln Theatre with Retrograde, about the moment Sidney Poitier found himself trapped between the civil rights movement and the forces of McCarthyism. A tense, propulsive thriller set against a paranoid 1950s Hollywood, it followed soon after his smash hit For Black B