Hannah williams (SHE/HER)

Collaborative Direction, Musical Development, Administrative Policy Adapting

Ashville, NC
mshannahcat.com

Hannah Williams is a current intern with Theatrical Intimacy Education. Outside of TIE, she the Managing Director of Women's Theater Festival where she can be found producing, program managing, and occasionally directing. Hannah proudly serves as producer the talk show Theatre's Not Dead! with Keyanna Alexander as well as producing its podcast and The Momversations Podcast. Hannah has been involved in the production the #BWAYWorldRecord Project with RYCO Theatricals and THE MAD ONES LAB with Kerrigan-Lowdermilk. She currently lives in Asheville, NC, where she directs at theaters from Hendersonville, NC, to Knoxville, TN locally as well as traveling to direct at other regional houses. Previous directing work includes A Midsummer Night's Dream for Montford Park Players; Romeo and Juliet with Samuel-Lancaster Productions; The History of the Devil by Clive Barker with Brainchild Creative; and assistant directing Green Day’s American Idiot with Encore Theatrical Company. She has also been involved in the new play development process for Our Black Death by Lindsay Carpenter, Gertie and Alice by the Sea by Caridad Svich, and an adaptation of Miller and Tysen's Fugitive Songs, all with artists in residence. Hannah holds a BFA in Musical Theatre from Millikin University. Her performance work includes Sibella in A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder (Parkway Playhouse) and Percy in The Spitfire Grill (Dunes Summer Theatre). Hannah focuses on enforcing safe spaces in her practice with the goal of creating brave spaces. Hannah centers collaborative approaches, challenging colonized practices, and working against the expected. Pictures of her cats and puppy can be found on Twitter and Instagram at @mshannahcat.