- Was nominated for Broadway's 1980 Tony Award as author of Best Play nominee "Home."
- Inducted into North Carolina Literary Hall of Fame in 2010.
- Williams, a 6' 8" lefty, was once a sparring partner of boxer Muhammad Ali.
- He moved to New York City to focus on his writing, though he knew he would also have to continue acting for income. As Samm Williams, he entered New York City theater as an actor in 1973, performing in the play Black Jesus.
- Samm-Art Williams was an American playwright and screenwriter, television producer, and an actor on stage, television and film.
- At one point, he considered becoming a lawyer, but his dream of being a playwright won out.
- In the mid-1980s, he received two Emmy nominations for his work for TV series.
- Williams graduated from Morgan State University in Baltimore, Maryland, where he studied political science and psychology.
- Much of his work concerns the African-American experience.
- After college, Williams moved to Philadelphia, where he collaborated with the New Freedom Theatre as an actor, worked as a salesman to pay his bills, and wrote in his free time.
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