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Schele Williams

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DirectorOn stage 19962004

Schele Williams is an American director, a former cast member of Aida, who directed the 2024 Broadway revival of The Wiz.

On stage 4 productions, 8 years

1996 Rent Nederlander Theatre · Original · directed by Michael Greif 5,123 perf.
2000 Aida Palace Theatre · Revival · directed by Robert Falls 1,852 perf.
2003 Chess New Amsterdam Theatre · Revival · directed by Peter Flynn 1 perf.
2004 Hair New Amsterdam Theatre · Revival 1 perf.

Each row is a staging this name appears in the cast list of, read from the production record rather than from the person record. The person record names works instead, and a work cannot say which run somebody was in — that is how Elaine Stritch ends up filed under Show Boat 1927 when she was in the 1994 revival. No row here says what part was played, because no cast list records it.

Worked with more than once12 names

Adam Pascal 4 productions
Trent Armand Kendall 2 productions
Stuart Capps 2 productions
Raul Esparza 2 productions
Norm Lewis 2 productions
Naomi Kakuk 2 productions
Meredith Akins 2 productions
Maya Days 2 productions
Maryann Hu 2 productions
Mary Faber 2 productions
Julie Garnye 2 productions
Julia Murney 2 productions

Both names in the same cast list, more than once. It is not evidence of a partnership — a long-running company puts the same forty people together every night — but it is where one would start looking. 8 of these names are not links because we hold no record behind them; the name is set from the identifier and its punctuation may be wrong.

Also credited on3 works

The Wiz (2024 Revival)
The Notebook
The Wiz

These come off the person record, which names a work and not a production. So we can say this name is attached to the work and we cannot say which staging, or in what capacity. For a composer or a writer that is the whole career we hold; there is no cast list to find them in.

In the literature2 passages

  • Schele Williams, Natalia Zisa Understudies: Franne Calma, Kelli Fournier (Amneris); Bob Gaynor, Raymond Rodriguez, Eric Sciotto (Radames); Schele Williams (Aida); Tim Hunter, Phineas Newborn Ill (Mereb); Troy Allan Burgess (Zoser); Robert M. Armitage (Pharaoh); Kyra Little, Endalyn Taylor-Shellman (Nehebka); Samuel N. Thiam, Jerald Vincen…theatre-pdfs/Theatre World/Theatre World, 2002-03 Season, v. 59 (Willis).txt
  • Massey, Corinne McFadden, Phineas Newborn Raymond Rodriguez, Eric Sciotto, Samuel Schele Williams, Natalia Zisatheatre-pdfs/Theatre World/Theatre World, 2003-04 Season, v. 60 (Willis).txt

Passages naming this person, found by keyword across 178 books. A keyword match is not a biography, and a common name will pull in the wrong one.

What this page does not know

  • What this person played. No cast list we hold records a character against a performer.
  • Birth or death year. Neither is on the record.
  • Any portrait. 1,626 of 7,139 people have one, so this is the usual case rather than the exception.
  • Which of the credits above the roles on this record — director — apply to. The roles sit on the person and never on a credit, so a director who also acted looks the same here as one who did not.

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