Jaston Williams is an award-winning writer and actor from Olton and Crosbyton, Texas.
Williams’ performances have played on and off Broadway at the Kennedy Center, the Edinburgh International Arts Festival, the Spoleto Festival U.S.A., and throughout the United States. He received the L.A. Dramalogue Award for both Greater Tuna and A Tuna Christmas, which was published in “Best Plays of 1995.” Williams is a recipient of the Texas Governor’s Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Arts by a Native Texan and has performed at the White House on three occasions. He has also written and performed several critically acclaimed one-man shows, Cowboy Noises, Camping With Gasoline, Blame it on Valentine, and Texas. He incorporated friends Joe Ely, Kimmie Rhodes, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, and Jo Carol Pierce, in their performance piece, Is There Life After Lubbock? (2014). In 2013, Williams was awarded the Texas Medal of the Arts.
Jaston Williams was inducted into the West Texas Walk of Fame in 2014.
