Dawn Monique Williams

Dawn Monique Williams is the 2013 Phil Killian Directing Fellow at Oregon Shakespeare Festival. She is drawn to heightened language, magic realism, mythology, rhetoric, and poetic diction and has directed a wide range of plays including the recent English/U.S. premiere of Gracia Morales' NN12. Her international directing credits include Edinburgh Festival Fringe productions with Aces Wild Theatre. Dawn has worked with Impact Theatre, Woman's Will, the SF Young Playwrights Festival, CCT, Chester Theatre, and has assisted at leading regional theatres: Hartford Stage (Hartford, CT), TheatreWorks (Palo Alto, CA), California Shakespeare (Berkeley, CA), and Shakespeare & Co (Lenox, MA). She is a Drama League Directing Alum, and as a Drama League Fellow, was assistant director to Davis McCallum on the premiere of Quiara Alegría Hudes' 2012 Pulitzer Prize winning Water By the Spoonful. She holds a MA in Drama from SFSU, and an MFA in Directing from UMass Amherst.