Stanley E. Williams
Artistic Director and Co-founder –
Lorraine Hansberry Theatre
San Francisco, CA
Stanley E. Williams is the artistic director and co-founder of the Lorraine Hansberry
Theatre, founded in 1981 to present high-quality, professionally-directed plays
by America's foremost African American playwrights to diverse audiences in the
San Francisco region. The theatre also provides employment and career-building
opportunities for local actors, directors, designers and technicians of color
and fosters youth development and cultural enrichment through instructional workshops
and special outreach programs for youth and families.
Williams's recent directing credits include: Ntozake Shange's from okra to greens/ a different kinda love story, co-directed with Danny Duncan; the widely acclaimed production of Jared Choclatt's Hit It!; and most recently, this season's hugely successful run of Black Nativity, inspired by Langston Hughes.
A recipient of KGO TV 7's "Profiles in Excellence Award," Williams has also adapted and directed the world premiere staging of Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Alice Walker's The Third Life of Grange Copeland and received a special commission from the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) in 1988 to write and direct Sargent Johnson: The African American Spirit in California Modernist Art.
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