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Folami Williams is a Brooklyn, New York–based actor and thrilled to be making her Oregon Shakespeare Festival debut this season. She has an MFA in Acting from Columbia University. Most recently she could be found on Off-Broadway in The Devil’s Disciple at Theatre Row. Other select theatre includes: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (Broadway), Skeleton Crew (Portland Stage Company), Noises Off (Bucks County Playhouse), The Comedy of Errors (Shakespeare Theatre Company, Helen Hayes Award nom.), Julius Caesar, Othello (Classic Stage Company), Smart People (Kitchen Theatre Company), The Maids (INTAR/One-Eighth Theater), Romeo and Juliet (Manhattan Shakespeare Project), Auto de Fe (International WOW Company). As a physical actor and practitioner of experimental theatre, Folami has had the opportunity to workshop and develop new works with companies such PigPen Theatre Company, Colt Coeur, The New Ohio Theatre, and New York Theatre Workshop, as well with organizations such a NACL and Mercury Store. Select TV: The Blacklist (NBC), Younger (TV Land), Bull (CBS), She’s Gotta Have It (Netflix; dir. Spike Lee). IG: @folamiwill