Kelly Williams Carlson

B.A. - Musical Theatre, American University
B.A. - Secondary Education, American University
Certificate in Acting- British American Drama Academy
M.A. - Directing, Roosevelt University

Kelly Williams Carlson is a native of Baltimore, Maryland. She received her undergraduate degrees from American University in Musical Theatre and Secondary Education and her master’s degree in Directing from Roosevelt University in Chicago. She has also studied at the British American Drama Academy at Oxford University. She is currently the Theatre Department Chairperson at Patapsco High School and Center for the Arts, where she has been teaching for the last 14 years. Kelly has also served on the board for the Maryland Thespians Chapter of the Educational Theatre Association and the Maryland Theatre Education Association. She has directed/choreographed over 50 productions educationally or professionally in the Baltimore/DC area. Some of her favorite credits include: Macbeth, Eastland: A New Musical, Cabaret, Medea, Urinetown, Iphigenia at Aulis/in Orem, Our Country’s Good, Into the Woods, Seussical, and The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Her production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream won Best Play for both the Baltimore Theatre Awards and the Baltimore Cappies Critics Awards program. Kelly has worked with Imagination Stage, StillPointe Theatre, Toby’s Dinner Theatre, Victorian Lyric Opera Company, and the Theatre Lab, as well as many other regional and community theatres. She has taken two productions, The Laramie Project and An Adult Evening of Shel Silverstein, to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland. She was the national recipient of the 2018 Inspirational Theatre Educator Award from the Educational Theatre Association.