Heather Williams Bristol, United Kingdom
I've directed and performed in over 20 productions at The Bristol Old Vic and co-founded Bristol Old Vic's Young Company. Early films include Techine's Les Soeurs Brontes and Mingella's Truly Madly Deeply and recently, Choose Your Weapon.
- Actor Actor
- Theatre Director Theatre Director
Gender:
Female
Playing age:
55 to 65 years
Height:
5' 3" (1.6m)
Body type:
Heavyset
Ethnicity:
Caucasian
I have long associations with theatres in my home city of Bristol. For Bristol Old Vic I have directed/performed in over 20 productions including Up the Feeder Down the Mouth, Suspension and Sleeping Beauty. In April 2023 I was back there performing in Ad Infintum's If You Fall prior to a National tour.
I co-founded Bristol Old Vic’s Young Company with Sally Cookson and was also Director of Education and Youth Theatre (1996 - 2004.)
For Tobacco Factory Theatres, recent productions include The Love I Feel Is Red, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Our Country’s Good.
In 2021 I performed in The Place at the Bridge based on the sonnets for Shakespeare at the Tobacco Factory and in 2022 I performed in South Western with The Wardrobe Ensemble.
I co-founded and was Artistic Director of Myrtle Theatre (2004-2018), which gained a national reputation for ambitious, original theatre articulating diverse and unheard voices. Productions include Through the Wire; City of One, Hot Air, Jollity Farm, Up Down Boy and Up Down Man.
My early theatre career ranged from community theatre to Number 1 tours and I performed in repertory seasons throughout the UK. For TV I was a presenter for BBC’s iconic children’s programmes Play School and Play Away and collaborated with film writer/director Anthony Minghella on a number of his projects, performing in his films Whale Music, A Little Like Drowning and Truly Madly Deeply. I also appeared in Coronation Street, Grange Hill, Alfonso Bonzo, Casualty and The House of Elliott.
Top Associates
Portfolio
A Midsummer Night's Dream (Stage, 2021)
Love is confusing – especially when there’s magic involved and then a donkey shows up. William Shakespeare at The Tobacco Factory.
- Actor (Bottom)
If You Fall
(Stage, 2023)
Award winning Ad Infinitum produce this piece about care of the elderly in later life.
- Actor
Choose Your Weapon
(Short film, 2021)
Mature
All Mummy has to do is take a walk to the supermarket to buy some milk. A badass action extravaganza.
- Actor (Grandma)
Up Down Man
(Stage, 2017)
Theatre piece about a man with Downs Syndrome produced by Myrtle Theatre performed at Salisbury...
- Actor
The Love I Feel Is Red
(Stage, 2016)
Mona is pregnant. Her boyfriend has died. His mother is going crazy with grief and Mona has...
- Actor
Suspension
(Stage, 2009)
The challenges of modern parenting and the repercussions of the breakdown in the relationship...
- Actor
Grandpa in my Pocket
(2009)
A boy's grandfather uses a magical shrinking cap.
- Actor (Miss Snip, 1 episode)
Up The Feeder, Down The Mouth
(Stage, 2001)
The day-to-day stories of the men and women who worked the Bristol docks and sailed the seas....
- Co-director
- Actor
The House of Eliott
(TV drama, 1994)
Two sisters in 1920s London work to achieve success in the dressmaking business.
- Actor (singer, 1 episode)
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