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Rick Williams

is the winner of four Bay Area Critics Circle Awards for Best Actor in a Musical (title role in Man of La Mancha [2003] & John Adams in 1776 [2006 & 2000] with the Willows Theatre, and Ko-Ko in The Mikado [1986] with the San Francisco Lamplighters).

Mr. Williams has performed every Gilbert & Sullivan comic baritone role and appeared as King Gama in the Lamplighters’ award-winning production of Princess Ida at the 1995 International Gilbert & Sullivan Festival in Buxton, England.

Along with the Lamplighters and Willows Theatre he has performed with West Bay Opera, Pocket Opera, Berkeley Contemporary Opera, Peninsula Civic Light Opera, and Piedmont Light Opera Theater. Roles include Dr. Bartolo (Barber of Seville), the Sacristan (Tosca), Voltaire, Pangloss and the Governor (Candide), Fredrik (A Little Night Music), Baron Zeta and Njegus (Merry Widow), Frosch (Fledermaus), Lutz (Student Prince), Madame Quimper-Keradec (Vie Parisienne), Henry Higgins (My Fair Lady), Fagin (Oliver), Captain Andy (Show Boat), and Scrooge (Christmas Carol).