Best known as an actor, Rosalyn Coleman Williams is the director of the award-winning short films Allergic To Nuts and Drawing Angel. Both films have been seen on several TV stations nationally and in film festivals in the US and around the world. Rosalyn was awarded “Emerging Filmmaker” at the Cine Noir Film Festival in the busy film production city of Wilmington, North Carolina. With over a dozen film directing credits, including The Last Piece, Twinkle, BFF, Moth To A Flame, and Driving Fish. Rosalyn is slated to direct the feature film “Pulpit Playzs”.

Rosalyn is also prepped to direct the feature film “Unravel and Cut,” written by Craig, with Viola Davis attached as Executive Producer.

A graduate of Howard University and an MFA from Yale School of Drama, Roz has a keen insight into the actor-director relationship. She is celebrated as an “actors director.” She served as on-set acting coach for HBO’s 2nd season of the hit series “In Treatment.” Rosalyn was hired by the prestigious Cinereach Foundation to coach Sundance directors on their sophomore projects, most notably Terrance Nance, creator of HBO’s Random Acts of Flyness.

A teacher for over 25 years, Roz has had the pleasure to teach students at NYU Tisch, SUNY Purchase, The Actors Center, American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T. MFA program), Actor's Connection, Howard University and Duke Ellington School of the Arts and conducted acting workshops at film festivals around the country.

Broadway credits include:  To Kill A Mockingbird,  Travesties, The Mountaintop,  Radio Golf, Seven Guitars, The Piano Lesson (the original production and the revival), Mule Bone and The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant.

Rosalyn’s film credits include: ROB PEACE, MISS VIRGINIA, THE IMMORTAL JELLYFISH, FRANKIE AND ALICE, BROOKLYN'S FINEST, VANILLA SKY, OUR SONG, BROWN SUGAR, and MUSIC OF THE HEART. 

Television: BULL, JESSICA JONES, THE BLACK LIST, BLUE BLOODS, MADAM SECRETARY, KIDNAPPED, DC, OZ, and LAW AND ORDER SVU and Criminal Intent. 

Recent off-Broadway credits: The Wedding Band, Native Son, Breakfast with Mugabe.   

Fun facts: during the Pandemic Rosalyn directed A Christmas Carol online for Pioneer Theatre  Company. Acting wise she revised her character on BULL (CBS), acted in a new media project: The Woman’s Party for Clubbed Thumb Theatre Company, played the lead in the short film THE MECHANIC’S ROSE and  originated Tituba in the  solo play, The Master’s Tools, at Williamstown theatre festival. Notably she was on the Siri voice team for Apple. Finally she did the award winning audio book: Let The Record Show: a political history of act up by Sarah Schulman. 

 Rosalyn and Craig have one son, a musical skateboarding enthusiast. IG: @iRozapp