LaDarrion Williams

USA Today & New York Times Bestselling Author of Blood at the Root. Also a Playwright, screenwriter, and filmmaker.

[LaDarrion Williams @ItsLaDarrion]

To the little Black boy from Helena, Alabama who used to write stories while Disney Channel playing in the background to drown out his parents fighting…

To the 17 year old LaDarrion who promised himself while reading Percy Jackson to write a story with a kid like…

To the 27 year old LaDarrion who was sleeping in his car and driving a Lyft and Uber and folks telling him “ a story about about a Black boy with magic is not really marketable”…

All I got to say is… you did it, kid.

[LaDarrion Williams @ItsLaDarrion]

@boxingcoachwebb Oh man!!!🥹🥹 that means so much! Please invite everybody!

[LaDarrion Williams @ItsLaDarrion]

In 9 days my play makes its LA debut!

Please grab your tickets they’re going fast!

https://t.co/VTwGraRLaS

[BROADWAY BLACK! @BroadwayBlack]

I do not care what white people think or feel about slavery and it's imagery being used for storytelling on stage specifically.

[LaDarrion Williams @ItsLaDarrion]

@themummy @JayDeMoir Biiitchhhhhh we ready

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https://t.co/VTwGraRLaS

[LaDarrion Williams @ItsLaDarrion]

Ten more days until my play make its LA debut!!

[LaDarrion Williams @ItsLaDarrion]

Growing up in Alabama, my mama used to drag me to the hairshop every Saturday.
Who knew years later I would write a play about it.

I wrote this play to honor my mama, my aunties, all the women who used to go the beauty shop and get their strengths renewed.

Come see COCO QUEENS. October 25th-Nov 17th.

Get your tickets now!
https://t.co/6lAYmvFRnw

[LaDarrion Williams @ItsLaDarrion]

Ya boy just had a sold out off broadway reading of a play he wrote back in 2020 while living in his car.

I’m that boy.

[LaDarrion Williams @ItsLaDarrion]

What is COCO QUEENS?
Please order your tickets now!

https://t.co/xpZIWWKEtZ
We open October 25th-Nov 17th

[LaDarrion Williams @ItsLaDarrion]

Tech.
But I’m so grateful that my play BOULEVARD OF BOLD DREAMS is having an off Broadway presentation in NYC tonight.

Here’s Natalie Carter as Hattie McDaniel with the hotel maid Dottie hours before the historic Academy Awards.

[LaDarrion Williams @ItsLaDarrion]

Again if you’re in the NYC area. Come see my play BOULEVARD OF BOLD DREAMS.

It’s about Hattie McDaniel standing at a crossroads hours before the historic Academy Awards.

Tomorrow. 7pm. At Urban Stages. FREE ADMISSION.

https://t.co/gscATw6vyC

[LaDarrion Williams @ItsLaDarrion]

@MrSotrue2myself 😭😭😂😂😂😂😂 Dom is a good girl. Dude literally went to the after life and save that girl. Leave Malik alone hahahahahaah

[LaDarrion Williams @ItsLaDarrion]

I just had to have those slices of NYC pizza last night.

The treadmill toe my ass up.

[LaDarrion Williams @ItsLaDarrion]

I’ve been so damn busy with producing my LA play, I forgot to announce that my other play BOULEVARD OF BOLD DREAMS will be presented as a staged reading on Tuesday October 13th in New York at Urban Stages Theatre.

Directed by Tony Award Winner Trazana Beverly
And starring
Natalie Carter as Hattie McDaniel
Felicia Boswell
And
Bryce Foley.

7:00pm

259 West 30th Street

[LaDarrion Williams @ItsLaDarrion]

So grateful that my play is the receipient of the 2026 LA New Play Project Award.

This grant will go toward paying Black creatives for their blood sweat and tears.

When I say there’s a renaissance happening here in LA. It’s happening.

[LaDarrion Williams @ItsLaDarrion]

Why is Amy ALWAYS crying??!! #1000lbssisters

[LaDarrion Williams @ItsLaDarrion]

When you plant the seed, the water will come.

I’ve put so much financially into this play because I believe in this play so much. Because the doors kept slamming in my face. But when you’re obedient to the calling, the doors will open and it will all come back to you.

I’m so honored that my play COCO QUEENS is the recipient of the 2026 LA New Play Project Award!

Won’t He do it?!!!

[LaDarrion Williams @ItsLaDarrion]

120 lbs gone.

[LaDarrion Williams @ItsLaDarrion]

Congrats @DewaynePerkins I’m so excited to see this!

[Dewayne Perkins @DewaynePerkins]

“I Swear We’re Friends” | Official Teaser

The first 2 episodes premiere on Oct 14th, on YouTube!

https://t.co/VENH13nUtH

[LaDarrion Williams @ItsLaDarrion]

The roles exists and the scripts.

At the top of this year I decided to pour my personal funds from my book sales into creating a play where 4 Black actresses and a Black woman director who had doors closed in their faces. I’ve had many doors closed in mine.

We got tired of being told no and rejected. It’s scary. I’m scared everyday, but we chugging along.

If you’re in LA or you just want to support our production, look no further. Cause COCO QUEENS is coming.

https://t.co/6lAYmvFRnw