Dawn Monique Williams

Dawn Monique Williams
Born	July 2, 1978 (1978-07-02) (age 33) Oakland, California, USA
Occupation	Theatre Director

Dawn Monique Williams (born 1978) is an American theatre director. She was born in Oakland, California, United States, and is a graduate of California State University, Hayward (BA Theatre Arts, 2003), San Francisco State University (MA Drama, 2007) and earned a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2011.

Early life

Born in Oakland in 1978, to a white mother and black father, Williams attended Berkeley High School and appears in the PBS Frontline special, School Colors, about racial politics at Berkeley High School forty years after Brown v. Board of Education.^[1] Williams participated in school productions of Day of Absence, A Chorus Line, The Colored Museum, and The Wiz. She directed her first play, Eugene Ionesco's The Lesson at 15 while a student at BHS.

Career

Williams is a 2011 Directing Fellow of the Drama League of New York. ^[2] She is one of four directors selected for the fall Directors' Project. She is Resident Director for Aces Wild Theatre, a touring company regularly taking productions to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.^[3] Her production of Lisa D'Amour's Anna Bella Eema traveled to the Fringe in 2008, and a production of Shakespeare's The Tempest played the festival in August 2010. She is the former Associate Artistic Director for Berkeley's Impact Theatre.^[4]

In addition to her work with Aces, and Impact, Williams has worked at Woman's Will, Hampshire Shakespeare Company, the Hayward Greek Festival, the San Francisco Young Playwrights Festival, California Conservatory Theatre, Chester Theatre, New World Theater and has assisted at the leading regional theatres Hartford Stage (Hartford, Connecticut), Shakespeare & Company (Lenox, Massachusetts), TheatreWorks (Palo Alto, California), and California Shakespeare Theater (Berkeley, California). Her passion is Shakespearean classics, heightened language plays, and magic/heightened realism, which is evident in these select directing credits: The Winter’s Tale, Twelfth Night, Much Ado About Nothing, Scapin the Cheat, Sleepy, Steel Magnolias, Children of Eden, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Little Shop of Horrors, The Burial at Thebes, A Christmas Carol, Medea, Trojan Women, In the Blood, and La Ronde.

References

1. ^ [1] PBS and WGBH/FRONTLINE © 1998
2. ^ [2] Drama League of New York © 2011
3. ^ [3] Aces Wild Theatre Company © 2004-2008
4. ^ [4] Impact Theatre © 2009

External links

• Official website
• Drama League
• Aces Wild Theatre
• Dawn Monique Williams at the Internet Movie Database

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Name	Williams, Dawn Monique
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Date of birth	1978-07-02
Place of birth	Oakland, California, USA
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