Dathan B. Williams of the Harlem Shakespeare Festival
Dathan B. Williams is an award-winning classical and musical theatre actor. Last Monday we saw him play Ira Aldridge in SHAKESPEARE IN SABLE, a collage play he devised about the life and experience of three African-American actors, Aldridge, Henrietta Vinton Davis and Paul Robeson. Here he reflects on the politics of performance, his aversion to the phrase ‘non-traditional casting’ and the dream of ‘American casting’…