Bio
R. Shanea Williams is a native of Richmond, Virginia and currently resides in Queens, New York. She graduated from the University of Virginia in 2003 with a BA in English and received her MFA in dramatic writing (with a concentration in screenwriting) from New York University in 2008. Williams was a quarterfinalist in the 2007 Slamdance Screenwriting Competition and in 2011, she was a top five screenplay finalist in the Urbanworld Film Festival Screenwriting Competition.
Her work has been featured on IndieWire, Shadow And Act, and Black Girl Nerds.