Nigel Shawn Williams is a Canadian actor and theatre director, currently the coartistic director, with Nina Lee Aquino, of the Factory Theatre in Toronto, Ontario.
Williams was born in Jamaica, and moved to Canada with his family in childhood. A 1990 graduate of the University of Windsor, his early stage roles included Sally Han and Thomas Coyles The Tyrant of Pontus, SuzanLori Parks Imperceptible Mutabilities in the Third Kingdom, Robert E. Sherwoods The Petrified Forest and George Bernard Shaws The Six of Calais. He won the Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male in a Principal Role Play in 1995 for his performance as Paul in John Guares Six Degrees of Separation.
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