Justine Williams

Lecturer in Acting

Justine (she, they) is an actor-creator, theater/filmmaker, and celebrated teacher of play, clown, ensemble-based and devised performance. She has developed new work and appeared on stages at Ars Nova, NYTW, The Public Theater, Dixon Place, Abrons Arts, Shakespeare Theater of NJ, Yale Rep and Berkeley Rep, among others. Film work has premiered at Woodstock Film Festival, New Directors/New Films and Maryland Film Festival, and she was an artist-in-residence at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where she created an artist hack of the museum’s collections combining new media, performance and the voices/work of elder immigrant artists in NYC. Internationally, Justine has presented new work at the Sibiu International Theater Festival, the National Arts Festival in South Africa, and has collaborated with companies in France, Poland, Israel, Macedonia, Brazil and South Africa. She has completed residencies and fellowships with Queer|Art, New Georges, Lighthouse Film Festival, The Orchard Project and NY Women in Film & Television, and is currently writing a book on Play. MFA: CUNY/Brooklyn College in Performance and New Media.