Pat Williams
Pat Williams (19*-) is an award-winning writer, journalist, script-writer, broadcaster and psychotherapist.
She began her working life at sixteen,
She spent ten years as director of the College of Storytellers (formed to help kick-start the British storytelling revival), and gives popular workshops and seminars on metaphor and therapeutic storytelling in Britain and elsewhere. Pat has lived in London for decades, as well as, in recent years, on the Isle of Arran.
She was part of the team that developed the jazz opera King Kong, writing the the lyrics for the 1959 production of by Union Artists.
In 2017 published the book King Kong: Our Knot of Time and Music (Jonathan Ball Publishers), her personal memoir of the original production of the musical and a behind-the-scenes account of the legendary South African musical and its ongoing legacy.
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