Ellis E. Williams - Kenny Leon's True Colors Theatre Company Atlanta

Ellis E. Williams has appeared on Broadway in Once on This Island, The Pirates of PenzanceRequiem for a Heavyweight, Solomon’s Child, The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel and the national tour of Driving Miss Daisy with Julie Harris and the late Brock Peters.  Ellis is a previous winner of the prestigious L.A. Ovation Award for Best Featured Actor/Distant Fires and an NAACP IMAGE Award Nominee for Best Featured Actor/Blade to the Heat. Ellis has performed at numerous regional theatres including Pasadena Play House, South Coast Repertory Theatre, Kirk Douglas Theatre, Theatre Company of Boston, Long Wharf Theatre,  Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles, New York Shakespeare Festival Public Theatre and the famed Negro Ensemble Company.  Ellis performed in Radio Golf, August Wilson’s final play, and in August Wilson’s 20thCentury at the Kennedy Center.  Last year, Ellis appeared at the Ebony Repertory Theatre in A Raisin in the Sun, which received eight 2011 LA Ovation Award Nominations including winner for Best Play (Large Theatre) and winner of the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Ensemble Performance.