James A. Williams

gearing up for a return to the emerald city. i've been in mn for too long nothing personal but i like the road. i've discovered i'm a road warrior. it will be great to focus on one task primarily and what a task it is troy maxson again. with the work in the men's healing group and the teen ensemble i'm anticipating new depths of revelation along with the opportunity to hear myself think again. i'll keep you posted.

it's amazing that down time busier than when I'm doing a show. the teen theatre program is in full swing. heading towards a January 22 and 23rd production date. I'm heading to Chicago for a reading of Carlye Brown's new play "Dartmoor Prison" structuring the summer program for PHT and preparing for upcoming trips to Venezuela and Brazil. AS i finish up my Fellowship year with TCG, I'm trying to figure where God has me heading. oh and did i mention fences at Seattle rep?

after a long hard, enjoyable and frustrating 2 months we're done. i asked for the opportunity and got it. "thank you God" i learned a great deal about theatre. people and what makes an artist. thank you to everyone involved in the journey. on ward and upward to teen theatre programing and eventually back to troy maxon.

I have now seen both Othellos | StarTribune.com

ok now i got it, if i'm natural in my delivery i don't have mastery of the text and if i have the text it's the dreaded shakespearean actor knock oh well as katt williams says " if you ain't got no haters you must not be doing it right!"

Review: 'Othello' is an acting tour de force | StarTribune.com

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well we open tonight this has been a long journey and i've learned quite a bit. i've been living othello through the process. as an artist i've found there is a huge difference in how african americans and whites approach the work. in the middle of all of this i often found myself struggling to keep the project on a course to find a more othello-centric approach to our production. while at every junction the traditional iago centric view of the play. yesterday during a talk back after 2 years of discussion. our director stated that he feels iago is the driving engine of the play. no wonder i'm exhausted. i understand how the show ends up as it does. when you start outlooking to protect ancillary relationships you lose the story. class, race, age and sex play huge roles in disintegration on this star-crossed couple. if you've ever been the "other" it's nearly impossible to understand the effect it plays on your thought process and what battles you choose to fight. i've never had that manifest itself as strongly as in this process.