Jess Williams
Movement Director
Jess Williams trained at the London Contemporary Dance School and the Laban Centre.
As Movement Director or Choreographer her theatre work includes: Nye (National Theatre/Wales Millennium Centre); Hamlet Hail to the Thief (RSC/Factory International); Richard III (The Globe); Lost and Found (Factory International, Aviva Studios); The Boy with Two Hearts (Wales Millennium Centre/National Theatre); Snake in the Grass, Rope, Mother Goose, Celebrated Virgins (Theatr Clwyd); Poor (Gate Theatre, Dublin); Byth Bythoedd Amen, Merched Caerdydd (Theatr Cymru); A Little Piece of You (Theatre Royal Drury Lane); Around the World in 80 Days (Theatre by the Lake); Blood Harmony, Petrichor (ThickSkin); A Walk is Not Just a Walk (Lyric Theatre Belfast); One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (English Theatre Frankfurt); Constellations (National Centre for Performing Arts, Mumbai).
As Associate Director or Associate Movement Director: I Think We Are Alone, The Unreturning, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Frantic Assembly); The Ocean at the End of the Lane, Beginning (National Theatre); Dracula: Mina’s Reckoning (National Theatre of Scotland).
As a teacher Jess has led workshops and masterclasses all over the world in devising and physicality.