Biography
Jeanmarie Williams (a.k.a. Jeanmarie Higgins) holds an MFA in playwriting from the University of Virginia and a PhD in theatre history from the University of Washington. Productions of her work include: Slide Show for the Virtual Performance Factory at UNC-Chapel Hill; Vanishing Marion at StreetSigns Center for Literature and Performance in Chapel Hill, NC; Science Fair for PS/NBC at HERE Arts Center in New York; To Moscow! at the American Living Room at HERE and the Hudson Backstage in Los Angeles; and staged readings at Playwrights Theatre of New Jersey (Human Interest) and Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company (Trading Futures). Her television script for Sabrina: The Animated Series aired on the Disney Channel and ABC Saturday Morning. She has taught playwriting for the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, Playwrights Theatre of New Jersey, the South Carolina Governor's School, and Cornish College of the Arts. She is an assistant professor in the Theatre Department at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
