Amber Sophia Williams
I started my career as an actor, training with the Actor’s Temple in London, before broadening my practice to directing, making and producing. I studied medieval history at UCL (2023) before taking the MA Advanced Theatre Practice at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama (2024).
As a theatre-maker, I aim to make work that is clean, responsive and overwhelming. Influenced by the artistic traditions of surrealism and symbolism, theatrical traditions of magical realism, kitchen sink drama and absurdism, and the aesthetics of medieval scriptoriums, my work often explores the relationship between the familiar and domestic and the weird and uncanny.
As a producer, I am deeply invested in the work I produce: I consider my role a creative one that is essential to supporting and facilitating the artistic life of a project. Producing is a co-creative process in which I can help ensure all the moving parts come together to make the best possible version of the work.
I work in a heterachical manner, regardless of the project at hand. I am profoundly influenced by the skills, impulses and natural dynamics my collaborators bring to the room; the tone of the work emerges from their input as much as mine.
Though my own work is not usually immersive, I have found myself frequently collaborating with experimental immersive theatre makers like Deadweight and Voidspace over the past few years.