Roy Kift

After gaining a degree in French and Romance Studies at the Aberystwyth University in Wales in 1965, Kift completed a three-year acting course at the London Drama Centre.

He performed for a season at the Newcastle Playhouse before moving to London to play in Mustapha Matura's Black Pieces.

[3] His play Camp Comedy (published in The Theatre of the Holocaust, Volume 2, edited by Robert Skloot in 1999),[4] was performed in New York in 2003.

[3] The play focuses on German actor and director Kurt Gerron, who was forced by the Nazis to make a propaganda film about Theresienstadt in order to deceive visiting Red Cross officials.

In addition to his theatre work, Kift has also written three travel guides and published a children's book.