LaDarrion Williams
LaDarrion Williams is a Los Angeles based-playwright, filmmaker, author, and screenwriter whose goal is to cultivate a new era of Black fantasy, providing space and agency for Black characters and stories in a new, fresh and fantastical way.
His first play, Katrina, won first place at the Alabama State Thespian Conference. It was also a part of A Noise Within Theatre for their Noise Now Reading Series.
His adaptation of the best-selling memoir, Feeding A Monster, was directed by award-winning actor and director Art Evans at the Hudson Theatre in Hollywood, CA.
In 2019, he was invited to be a guest writer for Center Theatre Groups’ August Wilson Monologue Competition.
His play Black Creek Risin’ was a part of the Great Plains Theatre Conference in Omaha, Nebraska, and a finalist in the National Black Theatre I AM SOUL Playwriting Fellowship.
In September 2019, his play, Coco Queens, was a part of the Sundance Institute’s Playwriting Intensive. The play was also a semi-finalist for the 2020 Eugene O’Neill National Playwriting Conference.
In 2021, his play Boulevard of Bold Dreams (a story about Hattie McDaniel’s historic Oscar win) was a part of the New Works Festival at the Morgan-Wixson Theatre in Santa Monica, California. Currently, it will be a part of the Orlando Shakes Play Fest 2022, and it will be making its World Premiere at TimeLine Theatre in Chicago Jan 2023 and Greater Boston Stage Company in March 2023.
LaDarrion is currently a resident playwright/co-creator of The Black Creators Collective, where his play UMOJA made its West Coast premiere in January 2022 and produced North Hollywood’s first Black playwrights festival at the Waco Theater Center.
Serving as a writer-producer, LaDarrion has curated three short films on Youtube. His viral and award-winning short film Blood at the Root is currently on YouTube and Amazon Prime and is anticipated to become a Young Adult fantasy novel.
