CANDICE Carty-Williams has revealed that playwright Ryan Calais Cameron worked on two episodes of her TV adaptation, Queenie. Carty-Williams, pictured, who wrote and adapted Queenie (her following book, People Person, is also out in paperback), spoke from the set of the upcoming Channel 4 show, which started filming this week. “Ryan is a fantastic writer. And he just so deeply understands human nature,” she said.
The playwright’s productions Retrograde and For Black Boys... are currently showing in the West End — Carty-Williams has seen the former multiple times. Calais Cameron was also the only man in the writer’s room. “He has sisters. And he’s super-considerate... he was really incredible. Asking, and never telling us things and listening to us. And that was really, really important, because obviously the subject matter is so sensitive.”
