Dathan Williams:  

My most recent Theater BIO: Dathan B. Williams is the Associate Artistic Director of The Harlem Shakespeare Festival where he has served as the Director of Education, the Dramaturge, Text Coach and Director. Most recent direction there includes: the 2020 virtual performance of Just About Love, a new adaptation of All’s Well That Ends Well; Much Ado About Nothing and The Sable Series: The History of Black Shakespearean Actors (Co-Author). Other recent directing work includes: Regional: Measure for Measure (Flagler College) - currently directing; Moana, Jr (Rubicon Theater); Shall I Compare Thee: The Sonnet Project - Playwright and Co-Director (Southwest Shakespeare Company) and The Agitators - Asst. Director (Theater at Monmouth) Off-Broadway: Me and Steppin’ for The New Federal Theater. Three musicals for Disney Theatrical’s MIS program: The Aristocats, Jungle Book and Aladdin, Jr. As an actor: Broadway – Show Boat; Off-Broadway – Christmas in Hell – (NY Premiere); On Kentucky Avenue; Nathan The Wise; Buffalo Gal (NY Premiere) plus five others. Off-Off-Broadway - Over 40 Shows and counting! Nat’ Tour - Show Boat plus three others. International - Two Seasons at the Stratford Festival – (’91 Guthrie Award). Recent Regional – The Railway Children; Jump; Dracula; Deathtrap; Proposals; Stephen Schwartz's The Prince of Egypt; Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (1st Regional Premiere) and the U.S. Premiere of Jack Murphy and Frank Wildhorn's The Count of Monte Cristo. Film/TV/Web – Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Audio Book), Bros - NYC premiere September 20, 2022, Less Than or Equal To, The Murder Years (Podcast), The OPC (Podcast), The Register (Podcast). Most recently he has taught at Brooklyn College, Syracuse Un...Expand for more