Philip Middleton Williams is a writer based in South Florida. His first play, “The Hunter,” was produced at the University of Minnesota as part of his MFA requirements. “Dark Twist” was produced in a reading by the Actors Ensemble Theatre of Boulder, Colorado. “The Purer, Brighter Years” premiered in a staged reading at the Old Town Playhouse in Traverse City, Michigan. “Here’s Hoping,” commissioned by Northern Michigan Planned Parenthood for the Troupe Teen Theatre Company, was presented in Petoskey, Michigan. “All Together Now” won first place in the 2016 Playgroup LLC playwriting contest and was produced as part of the Willow Theatre 2017-2018 season in Boca Raton, Florida. “Can’t Live Without You” was his first play to receive a New York production at the Manhattan Repertory Theatre in January 2008 and was chosen by The Playgroup for their 2018-2019 season at The Willow Theatre.

Other works include “Ask Me Anything,” directed by William Roudebush, “Last Exit” and “A Life Enriching Community,” directed by Jerry Jensen, and “Which Way to the Beach,” directed by Steven A. Chambers at the New Theater’s Miami 1-Acts Festivals. "A Moment of Clarity" was a 2017 finalist in the City Theatre National Award for Short Playwriting. His work has also been seen in the South Florida One-Minute Play Festivals, the Midwest Dramatist Conference, the William Inge Theatre Festival New Play Labs, Bartell Theatre of Madison, Wisconsin, Odenbear Theatre of Taos, New Mexico, Theatre Roulette of Columbus, Ohio, the Short+Sweet Festival of Sydney, Australia, the Valdez Last Frontier Theatre Conference, and the Vermont Pride Theater.

In 1992 he was appointed to the national advisory board of the William Inge Theatre Festival. He has written numerous articles on the works of Inge and Lanford Wilson and contributed to The Facts on File Companion to American Drama edited by Jackson R. Bryer and Mary C. Hartig. His doctoral thesis, A Comfortable House – Lanford Wilson, Marshall W. Mason and the Circle Repertory Theatre, was published by McFarland and Company in 1993.

He has been a member of the Dramatists Guild since 1984.