Amber Williams

I am a director and theatre maker based between London and Oslo. I use she/her pronouns. I began my career as an actor, but have gradually broadened my practice to directing, making, and workshop facilitation, and now work freelance across all these areas. I studied medieval history at UCL before taking the MA Advanced Theatre Practice at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, which I have just finished.

I aim to make work that is clean, responsive and overwhelming. Influenced by the artistic traditions of surrealism and symbolism, theatrical traditions of magical realism, kitchen sink drama and absurdism, and the aesthetics of medieval scriptoriums, my work often explores the relationship between the familiar and domestic and the weird and uncanny. As a director, I work in a heterachical manner, regardless of the project at hand. I am profoundly influenced by the skills, impulses and natural dynamics my collaborators bring to the room; the tone of the work emerges from their input as much as mine.

Credits

DIRECTING

Co-creator, Salt the Threshold, RCSSD and Camden People's Theatre, 2 nights, 2024

Co-creator, When Life Gives You, RCSSD, 1 night, 2024

Director, Romeo and Juliet, Oslo Community Theatre, 1 week, 2022

Director, Hamlet, digital co-production between The Bard's Inn and Shakespeare Online Repertory, 2 nights, 2019

Director and writer, All That Nonsense, site-specific verbatim work for Black Box Theatre, 2018

Assistant director, Julius Caesar, Verulamium Amphitheatre, Black Box Theatre, 1 week, 2018

Rabbit, director, site-specific work for Black Box Theatre, 2 nights, 2017


WORKSHOPS AND FACILITATION


Co-facilitator, Hyttetur, ongoing workshop series in Innlandet, 2023-present

Dramaturg, Summer Scenes, Oslo Community Theatre, 3 nights, 2023

Co- facilitator, Directing for Stage and Playing with Character, workshop series, Oslo Community Theatre, 2023

PERFORMING

Beatrix, The Manikins, Deadweight Theatre and Parabolic, The Crypt/Kingswood Arts, 6 weeks/13 weeks, 2024

A, Salt the Threshold, RCSSD and Camden People’s Theatre, 2 nights, 2024

Art, The Deluge, dir. Emily Hawkins, Webber Douglas studio, RCSSD, 1 night, 2023

Lampito, Lysistrata, Teater Neuf International, Chateau Neuf, 1 week, 2022

Various, Der Brotladen, dir. Phoebe von Held, site specific, 2 nights, 2021

Arwen, Power of One, Soren Bennick Productions, TIE schools tour, 4 weeks, 2016

Training

MA Advanced Theatre Practice, Royal Central School of Speech and Drama
2023 – 2024, result pending

BA Viking and Old Norse, University College London (UCL) / Universitet i Oslo
2018 – 2023, 1:1

Foundation and Core training, The Actors Temple (Meisner)
2014 – 2016