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Rosalyn Coleman Williams best known as an actor, is the director of the award winning short films Allergic To Nuts and Drawing Angel. Both films have been seen on several TV stations nationally and in film festivals in the US and around the world. With over a dozen film directing credits, Rosalyn is preparing to direct the feature film Hanging By A Thread, written and produced by her husband and partner Craig T. Williams and Executive Produced by Academy Award winner Viola Davis and her husband Julius Tennon.

 A graduate of Howard University and an MFA from Yale School of Drama, Roz has a keen insight into actor-director relationship, she is celebrated as an “actors director.” She served as on-set acting coach for HBO’s 2nd season of the hit series “In Treatment.” Rosalyn was hired by the prestigious Cinereach Foundation to coach Sundance directors on their sophomore projects, most notably Terrance Nance, creator of HBO’s Random Acts of Flyness.

 A teacher for over 25 years, Roz has had the pleasure to teach students at NYU Tisch, SUNY Purchase, The Actors Center, American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T. MFA program), Actor's Connection, Howard University and Duke Ellington School of the Arts and conducted acting workshops at film festivals around the country.

Rosalyn created Acting In The Digital Age, a platform that helped actors produce online tools that put you them in the running to gain representation and book meaningful jobs. She also created the first of it’s kind, an online live in person, self-tape acting class called Zoom In Acting. Actors learned to use tech and their craft to create transformative self-tapes.

As an actor, Rosalyn’s professional experience includes Broadway, Film and TV. She has acted with Meryl Streep, Viola Davis, Samuel L. Jackson, Halle Berry and Tom Cruise. Roz stars in just released season 2 of the Emmy nominated web series Ctrl Alt Delete and she can currently be seen in the just released feature film“Miss Virginia”.

To every actor she works with Roz brings truth, passion, commitment, and real world working experience. She was voted Favorite On-Camera Teacher in a Backstage Readers Poll 2 years in a row.

The truth is, “I have been blessed with an accomplished acting career. I have worked on Broadway, in major motion pictures and on numerous TV shows. I have also directed many short films and started a production company with my husband. I am proud of these achievements and thank God for the opportunities I’ve had to do what I love. However, the love I have for acting and directing does not compare to how much I love teaching. The greatest pleasure for me as a teacher is to facilitate the person to reach their humanity. I want my clients to leave the room knowing their personal power as a base to communicate anything that a human is capable of experiencing.”

The passion, commitment and love of acting is what Roz offers to every student and client she works with, which with has turned her job as a teacher/coach into something she calls “my practice.” “It’s not a job; it’s a joy.”