Baker Artist Portfolios

Louis Williams, III is a Baltimore-bred Playwright and burgeoning Artistic Director. He is a Pan-African storyteller who wields his pen in respect to Black communities around the globe in order to weave narratives about the African diaspora that are simultaneously sophisticated, challenging and optimistic. Louis is a proud Resident Company Member of WombWork Production’s Nu World Art Ensemble and a proud student of Baltimore’s Black Grassroots Think-Tank, Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle. He graduated with his Bachelors from Coppin State University’s Urban Arts Program in 2021 and was a member of the 2024 cohort of the Black Theatre Coalition/Broadway Across America Fellowship. He was previously the Deck Chief at Everyman Theatre and is currently the Marketplace Organizer of Engagement at Black Yield Institute. In addition to the ongoing development of his newest work, The African Singularity, he is also the author of two 10-minute plays; False Prophets (winner of the 2019 S. Randolph Edmonds Playwriting Competition) and For Your Eyes Only (2019). Louis anticipates the day he is able to begin a production company that focuses on producing narratives that illuminate the often shadowed stories that comprise the Global African Diaspora.