Garyn Williams

Garyn Williams - He/Him

I come from South Wales. (Porth, Rhondda Valleys.) I was brought up in a working class environment, by very inartistic people. I showed an interest in theatre from my early teens, along with football and drinking cider. As there were not many opportunities in school, I created my own by devising and directing plays that were performed to the entire school each year and became a big event. I also taught GCSE classes when the drama teacher couldn't be bothered. After working in Nando's for 2 years, I was lucky enough to get in to RWCMD. After the best three years anyone could ever ask for, I developed not only as a person but as an artist. I fell in love with he working class playwrights of Britain like Leigh, Pinter and Marber and the the works and essays of David Mahmet. I am currently waiting to begin rehearsals as an actor in Dominic Cooke's production of 'The Corn Is Green' at the National Theatre. I am represented by Tom Barrett Artists. I have said that I am currently based in Wales, but will be moving to Tooting, London, next month.

I believe there is a beauty in theatre that can’t be found anywhere else. Every night a different audience comes together and watches a group of people experience something in a completely different way than to the night before or the night after. It is alive and fresh and completely in the moment. Or at least good theatre is. This all starts with one human beings desire to achieve something and their journey to overcome to get them there. How brilliant it that?

My aim as a director is to want to free actors and make them feel completely confident and in control on stage. Being an actor myself, I understand the psyche and bad habits and insecurities that a lot of actors fall in to. My goal is to break those processes, make the whole company on a production totally fierce and make theatre that is immediate, available and understandable to all classes.

Credits

Director:

2013, 2014, 2016 - School Devised Christmas Production
2018, 2019 - RWCMD, EYA Project

Actor:
2020, Stage, Robbart Robbatch, THE CORN IS GREEN, Royal National Theatre, Dominic Cooke
2020, Television, Cai, CYSWLLT/LIFELINES, VOX Productions / S4C, Pip Broughton
2020, Television, Caron, KEEPING FAITH, VOX Productions/BBC, Pip Broughton
2020, Stage, Steven, AFTER RINOCEROUS: THE RED PILL, The Ricard Burton Company, Debbie Hannan
2020, Stage, Valere, TARTUFFE, The Richard Burton Company, Sean Linnen
2019, Stage, Mugsy, DEALERS CHOICE, The Richard Burton Company, Oscar Toeman
2019, Stage, Bo Decker, BUS STOP, The Richard Burton Company, David Bond
2019, Stage, Antonio, THE MERCHANT OF VENICE, The Richard Burton Company, Patricia Logue
2018, Stage, Red Head Boy, RAGE, The Richard Burton Company, Elle While
2018, Television Movie, Homeless Boy, TO PROVIDE ALL PEOPLE, VOX Productions/BBC, Pip Broughton
2014, Television, Gruff, GWAITCH CARTREF, S4C

Training

Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, BA Acting 2017-2020