Sonia Williams

Sonia Williams is a critically acclaimed theatre artist, educator, writer, and researcher in African-Caribbean culture. Her directing credits includes: Kamau Brathwaite’s Odale’s Choice, Rawle Gibbon’s Shepherd and Mags Chalcraft-Islam’s Mother Country, devised production for National days of significance and One Woman productions. Sonia has taught at the University of the West Indies Cave Hill, Barbados Community College and the Edna Manley College for the Visual and Performing Arts in Jamaica. She writes, poetry, prose and plays, her work explores personal, historical and social issues within forms of Standard English and Caribbean nation-languages. She has won many prizes including the: Thomas J. Watson fellowship to Nigeria 1989, U.S.A, Governor General Award for excellence in Drama 1998 Barbados and the third prize the Frank Collymore Literary Endowment 2018 and 2019 with her collections “Her Bald Head Luminous” and “On Livity." Sonia has authored two books: This Too Will Pass and Embodied Knowings. She is dedicated to developing the region through service on the arts.