Summer L. Williams

Summer L. Williams has been an active artist in Boston’s theatre scene since the 1990s as a director, producer, and educator. As part of her Monan Residency, she will teach directing and direct the Theatre Department's April 2022 production of The Rocky Horror Show.  She is a founding member of Company One Theatre and currently serves as its Associate Artistic Director. She is also on the Board of Directors for both StageSource and the Coolidge Corner Theatre.

Her recent directing credits include Wolf Play (2020), School Girls, or The African Mean Girls Play (2019), MISS YOU LIKE HELL (2019), the world premiere of Leftovers (2018), Wig Out! (2018), Smart People (2017), Barbecue (2017), Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again. (2016), Bootycandy (2016), and An Octoroon (2016). She has directed for Company One, SpeakEasy Stage Company, BU's Playwrights' Theatre, Brandeis University, Clark University, the Theater Offensive, and Huntington Theatre Company, among others.

In 2009, 2016, and 2018, Williams won Elliot Norton Awards for Outstanding Director; she has been nominated for three IRNE (Independent Reviewers of New England) Awards.

Williams is a teacher of drama and a director at Brookline High School. She holds a B.A. in Theater and an M.A.Ed. in Urban Education.