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The Friday night series was given new life recently when CBS
ordered three new shows for a total of 16 thus far in its
inaugural season.
Williamson, who earned an undergraduate degree as a theater
major from Eastern Michigan University in 2006 and a masters
two years later in the Alabama Shakespeare Festival graduate
program, arrived in New York City in 2008 and started the
whirlwind of casting calls eventually landing several
understudy jobs.
Her first Broadway job was understudying three female parts
in the revival of August Wilson's Joe Turner's Come and
Gone.
When Joe Turner closed, she landed a job
understudying film star Kerry Washington (Ray, Save the
Last Dance, For Colored Girls) in David Mamet's Race,
a drama about a team of lawyers defending a white man
accused of raping a black woman.
Williamson remained with the cast as an understudy for seven
months until Washington and the rest of the original cast
left. Williamson stepped in for the final two months of the
play's run and her patience was rewarded in a review by the
New York Times' chief theater critic, Ben Brantley. Brantley
wrote that Williamson was an improvement in the part over
Washington.
This year, Williamson has guest starred in several
television series – “Homeland” and “Law & Order: SVU.”
Coming up for Williamson is a part in a feature film
(Janice) to be released in January – Man on a Ledge.
“A Gifted Man” premiered in September and can be seen on
Friday nights at 8 p.m. on CBS. |
