BIOGRAPHY

JESSE BOYD-WILLIAMS is an award winning actor, playwright, director, dramaturg, educator, and voice-over artist from Detroit, MI. His recent credits include assistant directing Detroit ‘67 (2025 Tour, Detroit Public Theatre); Confederates (Detroit Public Theatre), For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When The Rainbow is Enuf (Wayne State University), and directing Blood at the Root (Underground Theatre Company). Jesse earned an A.A. in Telecommunication from Henry Ford College in 2022, where they interned with Mosaic Youth Theatre of Detroit. In 2023, Jesse won the Black Theatre Network’s StudentQuest monologue competition in St. Louis, MO. He also serves on the Black Theatre Network’s executive board as Undergraduate Liaison. His credits include Detroit Public Theatre: Blues for an Alabama Sky; Detroit Repertory Theatre: Covenant; Williamston Theatre: The Magnolia Ballet; Plowshares Theatre Company: The Magnolia Ballet, Hastings Street; Toledo Repertoire Theatre: In The Heights; Detroit Actor’s Theatre Company: Dreamgirls, Broke-ology; Underground Theatre Company: The Lightning Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical; Wayne State University: Marcus; or the Secret of Sweet, The Rocky Horror Show, Chicken & Biscuits. Film: The List, Depart From It, Why Me?!, I Declare War. Television: BMF (STARZ); No Sudden Move (HBOMax).