Joshua Williams

Joshua Williams is a writer, director, translator ,and scholar currently teaching in the Department of Drama at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. His work is mostly concerned with the place of the non-human in world theatre and performance. His articles, essays and reviews have appeared in ASTR OnlineTheatre JournalThe Johannesburg SalonTheatre SurveyPerformance Research, African Theatre, Modern Drama, Africa is a Country, HowlRound, Brittle Paper, and The Los Angeles Review of Books. He is also currently translating the complete plays of the Tanzanian dramatist Ebrahim Hussein from Swahili into English for Oxford University Press. His own plays have been developed, commissioned and produced by, among others, Capital Fringe, UC Berkeley, CU Boulder, EST/Sloan, the New York Musical Theatre Festival, CAP 21, Ars Nova’s ANT Fest, SUNY Buffalo, the Rhinebeck Writers’ Retreat, and Play Ground San Francisco / Thick House. jdmwilliams.com


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Shelter

When you leave you leave the windows open and the doors  and because the house sits by the sea      by first light a film of sand gilds the floorboards and the kitchen chairs