Will MacAdams is a playwright, director, and performer who is daily inspired by his students. He has worked in theater in Indonesia, Brazil, South Africa, Mexico and across the United States. Past projects include: a series of four community-based plays about soil, immigration, and history, created in collaboration with farmers, farm workers, and others; Peter Handke’s “Kaspar,” which he directed in Johannesburg at the cusp of the post-Apartheid era; “Eye to Eye,” a play about racism and youth/police relations, created with young people and future police officers from New Haven, CT; and two pieces about economic class and its many intersections, created by students at Hampshire College.
He is currently collaborating with a team of theater makers from Atlanta, New Orleans, and the Pioneer Valley and writing “White Mourning,” a play about whiteness, parenting, and history. Mr. MacAdams has a B.A. in theater and anthropology from Yale University and an M.F.A. in theater directing from Yale University. He teaches a range of classes in acting, playwriting, directing, and theater for social change.
