Margaret Joy Williams (26 August 1950 – 14 April 2024) was a British film and television director based in London.
[4] She created a number of films with choreographer Victoria Marks,[5] including Mothers and Daughters in 1994[6] and later Outside In.
[9] In 2011, One Man Walking, a dance film directed by Williams, was broadcast on Channel 4.
[10] The film was choreographed by Kenrick Sandy and devised with Jonzi D. Williams has also adapted stage works for the screen such as Thomas Adès's opera Powder Her Face and Judith Weir's Blond Eckbert, both for Channel 4.
Williams collaborated many times with composer Judith Weir, including on film versions of Armida (Weir), filmed in Morocco, and Owen Wingrave,[11] an opera by Benjamin Britten.