Nigel Shawn Williams

Nigel Shawn Williams
Born
Jamaica
NationalityCanadian
Occupation(s)film, television and stage actor, theatre director
Known forformer co-artistic director of Factory Theatre

Nigel Shawn Williams is a Canadian actor and theatre director from Toronto, Ontario.[1]

Williams was born in Jamaica and moved to Canada with his family in childhood.[2] A 1990 graduate of the University of Windsor,[2] his early stage roles included Thomas Coyle's The Tyrant of Pontus, Suzan-Lori Parks' Imperceptible Mutabilities in the Third Kingdom, Robert E. Sherwood's The Petrified Forest and George Bernard Shaw's The Six of Calais.[2]

  1. ^ "The Interview: Factory Theatre’s artistic directors Nina Lee Aquino and Nigel Shawn Williams" Archived 2013-11-29 at the Wayback Machine. Toronto Life, January 24, 2013.
  2. ^ a b c "Nigel Williams eschews all labels save one: good actor". Toronto Star, January 8, 1995.