{"id":103633,"date":"2021-04-01T08:07:34","date_gmt":"2021-04-01T12:07:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=103633"},"modified":"2022-09-29T11:27:25","modified_gmt":"2022-09-29T15:27:25","slug":"acting-alumna-renika-williams-land-role-on-new-hbo-max-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2021\/04\/01\/acting-alumna-renika-williams-land-role-on-new-hbo-max-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Acting alumna Renika Williams lands role on new HBO Max series"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Renika Williams<\/p><\/div>\n

Renika Williams, a 2015 acting alumna from Wright State University, has landed a role as a series regular on Mindy Kaling\u2019s new television series, \u201cThe Sex Lives of College Girls.\u201d<\/p>\n

Williams will play \u201cWillow,\u201d a student at New England Essex College, where the show takes place. The teen comedy-drama is expected to premiere on HBO Max in 2021.<\/p>\n

Williams can also be seen in season 2 of Amazon\u2019s “Modern Love.” She has appeared on “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” and was a series regular in the doc series “Pen to Pictures” and web series “Placeholders” and Cuddle.”<\/p>\n

Her stage work includes Off-Broadway performances in “All the Natalie Portmans,” “The Climb,” “Cullud Wattah” and “Sweet.”<\/p>\n

She starred in “Mud Row” at the People\u2019s Light Theatre in Pennsylvania. Her regional theatre credits also include “Pipeline” at the Indiana Repertory and the Actor\u2019s Theater of Louisville; “The Bluest Eye” at the Arden Theater in Philadelphia; the Cincinnati Shakespeare Company’s production of “A Raisin in the Sun”; “Antigone,” “To Kill a Mockingbird” and “A Christmas Carol” at the Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park; and “Race” at the New Edgecliff Theatre.<\/p>\n

As a student at Wright State, Williams starred as Myrtle Mae Simmons in “Harvey” and Juliet in “Romeo and Juliet.”<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are incredibly proud of Renika Williams,” said Joe Deer, chair of the Department of Theatre, Dance and Motion Pictures<\/a>. “She started her training as part of our pre-college MAPP program before joining the B.F.A. Acting Program, and has been a great example of an exceptional artist, a positive spirit, a real entrepreneur in her career and a proud alum, to boot!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

2015 Wright State grad Renika Williams has landed a role as a series regular on Mindy Kaling\u2019s new television series, \u201cThe Sex Lives of College Girls.\u201d Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":103645,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[722,733,4859,725,747,715],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academics","category-alumni","category-fine-and-performing-arts","category-home-news-sidebar","category-liberal-arts","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103633"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103813,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103633\/revisions\/103813"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}