Megan Williams (Modern)
Megan Williams received her BFA from the Juilliard School in 1984. After graduating, she worked in the companies of Laura Glenn, Ohad Naharin and Mark Haim. In 1988 she joined the Mark Morris Dance Group with whom she danced for ten years, toured worldwide, taught and appeared in several films including Dido and Aeneus, Falling Down Stairs, The Hidden Soul of Harmony and The Hard Nut.
In 1997 she joined Morris as his assistant in the direction and staging of Paul Simon's The Capeman, a Broadway musical starring Marc Anthony and Reuben Blades. In April 2008, at Simon's request, she was the Stage Director for an acclaimed concert version of The Capeman at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
Ms. Williams continues her affiliation with Mark Morris as a guest performer (most recently creating the role of Lady Capulet in Morris' new Romeo and Juliet: On Motifs of Shakespeare), as guest rehearsal director, guest teacher at the Mark Morris Dance Center and has staged Morris' work on the Purchase Dance Corps, George Mason University and Vassar College students and the Boston Ballet.
A member of the Conservatory of Dance modern facutly since 1999, Ms. Williams has choreographed the Nutcracker's Arabian and Mother Ginger divertissements, numerous Senior Project solos, Carnival (2003) and Canto del Tucuman (2008) for the Purchase Dance Corps.
As a solo artist, Williams creates and commissions work (most recently from Helen Pickett), and performs at various NYC venues including Joe's Pub and Dance Theatre Workshop. She is on the Board of Directors of SYREN Modern Dance, a company co-directed by Purchase alumnae Kate Meehan and Lynn Peterson, and is on the Advisory Board of DanceNow NYC. She and her husband, Andy Wollowitz, are raising their sons, Bram & Griffin, in Westchester County.