Me, Myself and...

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A Bi-sexual Filipina from the ovens of Phoenix, Arizona, Sheryl Williams moved to Chicago to enrolled at Columbia College Chicago to pursue a life as a Fight Coordinator. It was through stage combat she learned about  theatrical intimacy. She has been working in the Chicago as an Intimacy Choreographer area since 2017.​

 

Since 2017, Sheryl Williams has been providing Intimacy Choreography and Coordination support to the Chicagoland area, with her work being seen on the stages of Regional Tony Awarding Court Theatre, The Goodman, Steppenwolf and The Lyric Opera of Chicago. And several festival submissions from Indie films she has worked on. Though based in Arizona, With friends all over the country, she is always happy to make more as she makes art!

 

She has been Court Theatre’s Resident Intimacy and Fight Choreographer from 2023 to 2026, and as well as their Culture and Consent Coordinator. She was consulted on quality of life improvements to the institution and implementing workshop practices to support their “Culture of

Care” process. She is also an Assistant Faculty member with T.I.E and on IPEC’s Certification Board. She also finds joy in supporting young artists, holding resident choreography and consulting positions with Roosevelt University CCPA, DePaul Theatre School, and North Central College.

 

Her B.A in Musical Theatre and Minor in Stage combat provided her foundation for her choreography and an enhanced awareness of audience visuals and spatial awareness. Through her workshops and consent based practices, she actively tries to create space for the performer's impulses to still be honored, while being boundary-informed and collaborative. She is thorough in her search for clarity when speaking to productions about what they wish to achieve and what may be needed to achieve it. She has participated in building casting calls around subject matter or specific requests from a production. She has been published as a contributor for staging violence and intimacy in Intimacy Directing

for Theatre and  interviewed for her work at Court Theatre and The Lyric Opera of Chicago In the Chicago Sun-Times. 

Laughter, joy and dad jokes included with each contract.