Kathryn Hunter Williams is Chair and an Associate Professor in the Department of Dramatic Art.    She received her undergraduate degree from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts. Kathryn lived and worked in NYC for 20 years.  Kathryn’s first company show at PRC was Constant Star fall of 1999.  She earned her MFA  from UNC in 2008 and joined the faculty. 

A longstanding member of PlayMakers Repertory Company, she recently originated  the role of Rhonda in The Game. Other roles include Rabby in Fat Ham, Gertrude in Hamlet, Mrs. Antrobus in The Skin of Our Teeth, Mrs. Whatsit in A Wrinkle in Time, Jacques in As You Like It, Portia in Julius Caesar, Everybody, Skelton Crew, Galileo, Intimate Apparel, Trouble in Mind, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, Love Alone, A Raisin in the Sun, A Midsummer Night’s Dream,  Angels in America, Doubt, and Yellowman.  She has also worked with Living Stage, The Negro Ensemble Company, and New Dramatists and Virgina Stage. 

 Directing credits include They Do Not Know Harlem, Stickfly, Nina Simone: No Fear Blues Long Gone and Count, for PlayMakers. Regional directing credits are The Mountaintop, The Niceties at Virginia Theater Festival.  

 For the past 20 years she has also served as Associate Director for Hidden Voices, a nonprofit based in Hillsborough NC. As Associate Director of Hidden Voices, Kathryn has  co-created performances with undocumented immigrant youth, families escaping violence, military spouses, survivors of sexual assault, African American communities facing gentrification, refugees, and incarcerated men on death row. 

 Awards include two MAP Grant for Hidden Voices project Serving Life, Academic Excellence Award from the Institute for the Arts and Humanities, Engaged Scholarship Award from the Office of the Provost, Innovation Grant from the Institute for Arts and Humanities for the Hidden Voices project None of the Above: Dismantling the School to Prison Pipeline.