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"These two young ladies are set to take the UK and the States by storm with their creative minds and dynamism",
Intrigue Magazine
Winner of ‘Best Overall Production’ at the Lost One Act Play Festival
Nominated for the Alfred Fagon Award 2009
Most Outstanding Playwright, Theatre Merit of Excellence
MONDAY: Written by Gloria Williams and Directed by Ellie Joseph
A one-woman play that depicts a disturbing series of events that harm and eventually destroy the world of what appears to everyone else to be a typical, church-going North London family. With a poetic and rhythmic writing style, Williams evokes not only the individual emotions and journeys of the characters, but also the specific North London-‘speak’ of the world in which her characters live.
CRITICAL RESPONSE
Monday premiered at the 25th Annual Lost One Act Festival in London and was awarded "Best Overall Production" by critic and adjudicator Jeremy Kingston of The Times.
It had its New York premiere at the Manhattan Repertory Theatre as part of the New York Amazing Play Festival. It had its second New York showing at the Samuel French Off Broadway One Act Play Festival at the Peter Jay Sharp Theatre after being selected out of 800 submissions worldwide.
The Play had a preview at Theatre 503 before a four week run at the Edinburgh International Festival. Monday was nominated for the Ogeyinka Merit Award of Excellence the following year and transferred to The Etcetera Theatre in London.
"Williams performance is harrowing and mesmerizing in equal measure and hits home the fear and powerlessness of an abused teenager trapped behind the facade of her apparently normal life"
The Scotsman.
SITRA ATRA Directed by Ellie Joseph
(2011)
(Short film adaptation of stage play MONDAY)
London - New York - Edinburgh
Gloria Williams – Playwright/Actress
Gloria Idahota Williams is an Award-winning British actress and playwright who trained with The Royal Court Theatre Young Writers Group and has been taught under playwrights, such as Martin Crimp.
Williams is a graduate of Rose Bruford College and won a scholarship to train at
the New York Conservatory of Dramatic Arts in Manhattan. Williams is a graduate of The Royal Court Theatre Young
under playwrights, such as Martin Crimp.
In 2010, Williams was one of the chosen actors under to be mentored by Kevin Spacey for The Old Vic: The Class scheme.
Whilst studying in New York she did a voiceover for the United Nations HIV/AIDS in
Africa campaign alongside Phylicia Rashād and Wyclef Jean which was won the
Red Ribbon Award.
She wrote and starred in Monday under her Theatre company Freedom Tongues. The play garnered widespread acclaim at International Festivals. Monday was performed at New York's Samuel French Off Broadway One Act Play Festival at The Playwrights Horizons and The Manhattan Repertory Theatre in Times Square. It premiered at The Lost One Act Play Festival at the New End Theatre, London winning 'Best Overall Production' by The Times critic Jeremy Kingston.
Alongside actors Sophie Okenedo and Chiwetel Ejiofor, Williams was nominated for the Ogeyinka Merit Award of Excellence.