About the playwright

Emilio Williams was recently featured at the Cervantes Institute of New York as one of the most promising new voices in the Spanish stage. The opening of his first play, A Strindberg Sonata, in the United States culminates a fantastic year for this playwright.

In June, his latest play, Medea Vindicada, opened in Madrid in June to sold-out audiences. The play, a one woman show, is a both parody and a tribute to Euripide’s classic Medea.

Earlier in the year, his comedy “Tables and Beds” was selected among 80 plays from 12 countries the winner of the 4th Premio el Espectáculo Teatral. The play opened during Madrid’s Alternative Theater Festival to both audience and critical acclaim.

Emilio Williams was born in Madrid. After the indie success of “Sonata a Strindberg” (2007), the author followed up with “If I lived, it was for a reason” (2008) a documentary play about the drama of political refugees in Spain. It opened at the Casa Encendida, an iconic civic center in Madrid.

The interest of Emilio for documentary theater is rooted in his years of work as a journalist. He worked for CNN in Atlanta and Washington, and was a freelance theater critic in Chicago. Since 2001, he has worked for Johns Hopkins University.

His contact is emiliow@aol.com