Actor. Director.
Educator.

Rosalyn Coleman Williams is an actor, director, and educator whose work spans Broadway, film, television, and the development of fellow artists.

Her Broadway credits include To Kill a Mockingbird, Seven Guitars, The Piano Lesson, and Mule Bone. On screen, her work includes Miss Virginia, Frankie & Alice, Brown Sugar, Vanilla Sky, Music of the Heart, and Our Song, along with television appearances in Bull, Jessica Jones, Madam Secretary, Blue Bloods, Nurse Jackie, and Law & Order: SVU.

As a director, Rosalyn brings an actor’s understanding of character and a commitment to serving the story. Her selected directing credits include Thanksgiving Break, Isabella and Claudio, Roe vs. Wade, Saving Father, From Bombay to NY, and The Last Piece. She co-founded Red Wall Productions with her husband, writer and producer Craig T. Williams, to help artists tell their stories.

A graduate of Howard University, where she earned her BFA in Drama, and Yale School of Drama, where she earned her MFA in Acting, Rosalyn brings her training and professional experience to her work with actors. She has taught at institutions including NYU Tisch, SUNY Purchase, The Actors Center, and Howard University. Her on-set coaching credits include the second season of HBO’s In Treatment and It’s Kind of a Funny Story.

Known to her students and collaborators as Roz, she works with actors in person in New York City and on Zoom. Her mission is to empower actors and create stories that matter as much as they entertain.