Anthea develops and directs award-winning cabarets. Productions she directed tour the globe.

When Anthea and Omar started working on Since Ali Died they didn’t think of it as a cabaret. But when it won Best Cabaret at the Sydney Theatre Awards with Omar’s hip hop and spoken word mixed with stories from his life, they were thrilled.

Anthea wrote Mother’s Ruin a Cabaret about Gin with Maeve Marsden, Elly Baxter, Libby Wood and Jeremy Brennan which has tour the UK, NZ and most major festivals in Australia.

Anthea’s next Cabaret, Fat Musicals, was to tour though Australia in 2020 before Covid-19 required postponement

Image Patrick Boland
Since Ali Died. Image A. Williams
Since Ali Died. Image Robert Catto
Since Ali Died. Image Robert Catto
Mother's Ruin, A Cabaret about Gin. Image P. Boland
Mother's Ruin, A Cabaret about Gin. Image P. Boland
Mother's Ruin, A Cabaret about Gin. Photo Prudence Upton
Mother's Ruin, A Cabaret about Gin. Image A. Kucera
Mother's Ruin, A Cabaret about Gin. Image A. Kucera
Mother's Ruin, A Cabaret about Gin. Image A. Kucera
Mother's Ruin, A Cabaret about Gin. Image A. Kucera
Mother's Ruin, A Cabaret about Gin. Image A. Kucera
Mother's Ruin, A Cabaret about Gin. Image A. Kucera
Mother's Ruin, A Cabaret about Gin. Image P. Boland

Reviews:

“Directed by Anthea Williams, ‘Since Ali Died’ is focussed and poignant. A work that comes so much from the performer’s heart requires a collaborative director who is sensitive to the personal nature of the work. In this, Williams excelled…Williams allowed Musa’s presence and natural storytelling ability to shine.”

“If you don’t think a cabaret that quotes 18th century lawmakers can be hot as fuck, then you haven’t seen Mother’s Ruin: A Cabaret about Gin…their defiant anger and deep empathy for centuries of hurting women that elevates this show from a fun history lesson to a complex and deeply moving work of political art… It’s genuinely profound"

Time Out Sydney*****