Spencer Williams

ARTS DEPARTMENT CHAIR; DIRECTOR OF PERFORMING ARTS  |  SWILLIAMS@YORK.ORG

Spencer is a educator, composer, playwright, director, and producer. As a performing arts director and educator, Spencer just came from Boston, MA where he was the Director of Arts at Fessenden School, an all boy’s independent PK-9 school. There he directed four musicals. Before that he taught at Pinewood School in Los Altos Hills, CA. At Pinewood he directed and produced An Evening with Stuart Brayson (US Premiere), Shrek, the musical, Whisper House (high school premiere), Snoopy!!!, Les Miserables and many others. He co-wrote and produced a developmental reading of his musical, For Tonight, at the 2014 New York Musical Theatre Festival; a hit that sold out and extended in a concert version at the same festival. It was also featured at the Goodspeed Festival of New Musicals Musicals in January 2015, and TheatreFest '15 on the Isle of Man, UK in October 2015. "One Step (Don't Forget Me)", was a Top 12 finalist in the 'Drewe & Stiles Best Song Award' and was performed in the West End, at the Garrick Theatre in May 2015. For Tonight was also a recent finalist in the New Horizons Music Festival. For Tonight will have its professional world premiere at Queensbury Theatre in February 2019.  He is a Graduate of Boston University, MM: Music Education and Brigham Young University, BM: Music Education. Member of: Dramatist Guild, ASCAP, National Alliance for Musical Theatre (NAMT), Mercury Musicals Development (MMD) and Musical Theatre Network (MTN).
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