Amber Sophia Williams

I started my career as an actor, training with the Actor’s Temple in London, before broadening my practice to directing and making. I studied medieval history at UCL before taking the MA Advanced Theatre Practice at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. I will be graduating from this course in September.

As a theatre-maker, 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.