Bailey Williams is a writer, performer, and producer. Past productions: Two Sisters Find a Box of Lesbian Erotica in the Woods, written with Emma Horwitz, dir. Tara Elliott, The Exponential Festival in collaboration with New Georges, January 2024. Coach Coach, dir. Dara Malina, Clubbed Thumb’s Winterworks 2023. Events, dir. Sarah Blush, The Hearth at The Brick, December 2022; I thought I would die but I didn’t, dir. Sarah Blush, The Tank, May 2019; Buffalo Bailey’s Ranch for Gay Horses, Troubled Teen Girls and Other: a 90 Minute Timeshare Presentation, The Exponential Festival, January 2018.

She was a 2022 MacDowell Fellow for Fiction and a member of the 2021-2022 Clubbed Thumb Early Career Writers Group and Ars Nova’s 2022-2023 Play Group. She is a New Georges affiliated artist and was a recipient of the 2022 Audrey Residency with Emma Horwitz. Her play, In the Basement, has been developed by Great Plains Theatre Conference (2023) and Portland Center Stage’s JAW Festival (2023). It received a UK production with Brooklyn Rep (dir. Charles Quittner, May 2023).

Currently developing This is a table. Out Loud Reading @ Ars Nova, fall 2024; residency at North American Cultural Laboratory, spring 2025.

MFA: Brooklyn College, Playwriting.