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Emilio Williams is a playwright whose plays have been produced in Spain, Argentina, France, Estonia, the United Kingdom and the United States (including productions and performances in Chicago, New York, Washington DC, and Los Angeles). He is also part of the alternative theater scene in Spain.
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- Tvc hoy mismo matan a empresario emilio williams en choluteca
- Nfc 7 armageddon larry westbrook vs emilio williams
- Plays premired in Spanish
- Plays premired in English
- Medeas Got Some Issues
- Smartphones a pocket size farce
- Tables and Beds
- Your Problem with Men
- References
His comedy Your Problem with Men was produced by Teatro Luna in Chicago, and has traveled to New York City, Los Angeles and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.
In 2012, his one-woman show Medea’s Got Some Issues received “Best International Show” at United Solo Festival, Off Broadway, New York City. The show was performed in the 2014 D.C. Fringe Festival and Chicago in 2016.
Also in 2012, his comedy Smartphones – a pocket-size farce, received its world première at Trap Door Theatre in Chicago. The Spanish première took place at the Teatro Lara in Madrid. The play received its East Coast première in a production by Ambassador Theatre in Washington DC. In 2016, Andrés Naime presented the première of Smartphones in Mexico City. The play is included in an anthology of new Spanish plays, Eight Works by Seven Playwrights, published in English by the Martin E. Segal Center.
In 2010, his “dramedy” “Tables and Beds, an unromantic comedy“ was selected among 80 plays from 12 countries as the winner of the 4th Premio el Espectáculo Teatoral.
Emilio Williams has degrees in journalism and in film and video. In the 1990’s, he worked for CNN in Atlanta and Washington and, between 2001 and 2011, was employed by Johns Hopkins University.
In 2011, he moved permanently to Chicago, the city where his father was born.
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Plays premièred in Spanish
Plays premièred in English
Medea's Got Some Issues
Seeing "Medea's Got Some Issues" is a little like going to brunch with your craziest friend (…) Despite how horrifying some of her justifications are, there is a centrifugal force to each word. She is gushing in a manner that compels you to keep watching and keep laughing. …clever and devastatingly funny. - Rachel Kurzius, The Washington City Paper
Williams, who wrote the award winning "Tables and Beds," as well as "Smartphones: A Pocket-Sized Farce," has constructed a witty, confrontational show giving us a contemporary look into the psyche of Euripides’ "Medea." - Paul Kubicki, Stage and Cinema
If I had to name the funniest thing I’ve seen so far this year, I would have to list Ana Asensio performing Emilio Williams’ one-woman show, "Medea’s Got Some Issues" as one of the strongest contenders. A Spanish riff on the Greek classic performed in English (got that?), Asensio’s accent is thick as hot chocolate in Madrid and her comedic timing is spot on. Penelope Cruz should watch her back. - Amy Lee Pearsall, nytheatre.com
A Killer comedy from a Spanish playwright (...) Witty (...) Hilarious" - Celia Wren, The Washington Post
Medea and Emilio Williams have a lot to say, and, in this tour de force performance by Lisa Hodsoll they make their points with brutal honesty and scathing humor. - Kerstin Broockmann, Chicago Stage Standard
Smartphones, a pocket size farce
Emilio Williams's deft, of-the-moment comedy is worth tweeting about. (...) Williams and his deft cast tweak theatrical conventions and technological obsessions with joy and, indeed, smarts. - Kris Vire, Time Out Chicago
Smartphones: A Pocket-Size Farce is a smart, well-executed show with just the right ratio of mockery to substance. Recommended - Keith Griffith, Chicago Reader
The production design is spectacular, evoking an mid-60s flavor. (...) It looks fantastic, and the performances (hilariously arch) are stylized and otherwordly. - Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune
Ah, what a refreshing thing a good farce can be on a hot summer day. In a nation with a drought of not just rain but quality satire, the premiere of Emilio Williams' Smartphones: A Pocket-Size Farce delivers a quirky little comedy with a sneakily smart dose of both old and new humor. - Clint May, Chicago Theater Beat
One of the funniest and cleverest pieces of absurd theater I have ever seen. (...) I laughed, I gasped, I cringed, I enjoyed every second of it. It's theater of the absurd for the digital age. - Jake Lindquist, Chicago Stage Style
IT'S ABSURD HOW AMAZING TRAP DOOR THEATRE IS...OR IS IT THE OTHER WAY AROUND? (...) Emilio Williams is a new voice worth following. - Paul Kubicki, Stage and Cinema
The cast delivers the craziness with a calculated combination of choreographed restraint and reckless abandon. (…)This show looks as good as next year’s iPhone upgrade. Recommended - Venus Zarris, Chicago Stage Review
The cast is wonderful as a unit, but Jodi Kingsley (…) manages to humanize an absurdist character, and once you’ve seen that, you start to think that all absurdist comedies might be improved by such a performance. Recommended - Lisa Findley, Center Stage
The author has placed a mirror between Samuel Beckett and Yasmina Reza to reflect the new realities of human relationships. (…) He has threaded together perfectly-pitched dialogues with profound thoughts and social criticism. - Luis Maria Anson, El Mundo
5 STARS - saw this show last nite. LMAO. 2 funny. OMG. u G2G. (…)Smartphones is one of the smartest, sharpest satires I’ve seen. - John Stoltenberg, DC Metro Arts
5 STARS - A smart, surreal Smartphones from Ambassador Theater (…) A must-see, wacky send-up. - Rosalind Lacy, DC Theatre Scene
Spoofing cellphone addiction, to hilarious effect - Celia Wren, The Washington Post
Tables and Beds
An odd, smart and often surprising look at contemporary romantic yearning.... With sophisticated lighting and set design, smooth transitions, and strong actors who comfortably bare their bodies, it's easy to admire this production, which, in a presentation of marital woes, ever so skillfully avoids the minefield of clichés around gay and straight coupling. - Suzanne Scanlon, Time Out Chicago Magazine
The play is modern, intelligent, fun and very well acted. “Tables and Beds” is about love in this day and age; love, the one we live, or the one we survive! And it’s about the effect that all our past experiences have on it. - Rafael Fuentes, El Imparcial
You will have a great time with its intelligent humor, and will leave the theater with a good after-taste - Eva Saiz, El Pais
Your Problem with Men
A comedy just as deliriously messy as a real breakup… What Williams has done is pour all that messy, chaotic, miserable breakup energy into a blender, pulverizing it into something almost camp. - Nina Metz, Chicago Tribune
Mischievous… groping for elusive truths. - Keith Griffith, Chicago Reader
If the breakup is the appetizer, the main course of Your Problem with Men is Asun’s struggle with the solitude of being single, which lends a couple of smart monologues to a bottle of tequila and a hilarious delusion of Jane Eyre. Emilio Willams’ script is a huge asset (…) it takes a story that could easily be a sappy melodrama and turns it into keenly clever experience for the characters and audience members. - Lauren W, The L-Stop
With each of the characters in this play, the audience is invited to wonder if people will ever be satisfied with the love they find, or whether for each to be satisfied in their situation, a redefinition of love is required. (…) a further sense of whimsy for the game that is love—a game we're us running in circles. - Vickie Vértiz, Howlround