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Welcome to the official website of Ethan Williams, Brooklyn-based actor and theatre maker

Recent Work

words a god had taught him (Ghostlight Theatre)

At the end of October 2026, Ethan will be starring as Ajax in Alex Oleksy’s play, words a god had taught him, a new adaptation of Sophocles’ Ajax which uses a translation of the original Greek text along with other found texts centering on the contemporary American military. The performance will run from October 22-25th at Bushwick’s Box of Moonlight.

Lennox Mutual (Candlehouse Collective)

Since April of 2026, Ethan has been performing in Candlehouse Collective’s serialized interactive epic, Lennox Mutual, as one of the Customer Service Representatives. The piece has been lauded by critics, having been featured in The New York Times, The New Yorker, and American Theatre.

The Fans The Show (dir. Allegra Rosenberg)

Ethan is currently starring in the webseries, The Fans The Show, a meta-comedy written by Sean Swenson and Allegra Rosenberg who also star in the series with him along with actor Miles Calderon. The first two episodes can be viewed now on YouTube with the rest premiering over the next few months.

Heaven is the Arrivals Gate at the Airport in my Hometown (Tiny Tim Machine)

In March of 2026, Ethan starred in the experimental piece, Heaven is the Arrivals Gate at the Airport in my Hometown, a performance collaboratively written by him and Emilia Harrison Daniel as the premiere play by their devising collective, Tiny Tim Machine. It’s 5 day run was produced in collaboration with Williamsburg’s Maker’s Ensemble.

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Measure for Measure

(Columbia University)

In October 2025, Ethan played the role of Angelo in Dennis Oliveira’s Columbia University MFA production of Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure

Headshot by Samuel Pickart