Mrs Rebecca Ross-Williams

Rebecca is Creativity and Social Change Director at the Everyman and Playhouse Theatres with a career in the arts and passion for using the arts to address inequality. Following an internationally focused MA in theatre directing, Rebecca has been director of several youth theatre companies, co-designed and established Performing Arts courses in BTEC, GNVQ and A-Level at Reading College, set up a Black Theatre Company and worked as a freelance drama practitioner nationally.

At the Everyman and Playhouse Theatres, Rebecca is strategic lead for Progressive Social Change and Equality and Diversity. She founded the Civic Engagement programme which focuses on under-represented people and which has been nominated for awards for using arts for social change. Rebecca developed Young Everyman and Playhouse (YEP) which provides participatory on-the-job training for young people in a variety of theatre strands; YEP aims to provide a navigable route from first engagement to professional training/employment and has a growing reputation for supporting under-represented young people into the industry. It was voted Stage School of the Year 2015 (Stage Awards). Rebecca is passionate about diversity and has spearheaded the theatres development work in this area which was awarded TMA Diversity Award 2015.

Mrs Rebecca Ross-Williams was commissioned as a Deputy Lieutenant in 2020.