Ren Williams is an Australian film & theatre actor, having trained with Honours at the
Flinders University Drama Centre. Also specialising in directing and writing, Ren is a co-
founder of independent theatre company ‘CRAM Collective’.

After graduating in 2020, Ren made her directing debut in 2021 with Deadset Theatre
Company’s show Truck Stop along with winning State Theatre Company SA’s Young
Playwright Award for her play Modified. In 2022 Ren performed and produced The CRAM
Collective’s world premiere Something Big (Dir. Connor Reidy), following their sold- out
show of New World Coming – a show created in 5 days. Later that year she also
performed as five different characters in Kinetik Collective’s StateSide show Kill Climate
Deniers (Dir. Clara Solly-Slade). In 2023, Ren starred in the one-woman show
Guthrak (Dir. Matthew Briggs) at the DreamBIG festival, the USA tour of Bluey’s Big Play
(Dir. Rosemary Myers) and Windmill Pictures’ Beep and Mort Season 2. In 2024, Ren
performed at AFC’s Space Theatre in a brand new Australian play: Hits (Dir. Rebecca
Meston) followed by undergoing a screen-acting diploma with Actors Studio UK at the
prestigious Pinewood Studios. Ren’s latest directorial short This is Fine. won Best
Directing and Best Film at the Adelaide 48 Hour Film Project, sending it to the 2025
Filmapalooza Festival in Seattle.