Alice Williams is a performance maker, director, and researcher whose performances transform the relationship between theatre and everyday life, through nature as a metaphor. She is an auto - ethnographic researcher interested in a question central to theatre anthropology, how theatre functions in relationship with everyday life.

Alice’s 2010 solo performance The Seagull, based on Chekhov's naturalist classic, told the story of a bird's life in art, and has been presented at Tamarama Rock Surfer's Theatre Company, Brisbane Festival, Performance Space, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Petit Théâtre du BonHeur Paris, and Proekt_Fabrika Moscow. Her 2012 verbatim performance Impossible Plays reimagined our social lives based on the fantasies of four strangers, a drag king, Arente watercolour artist, a street poet, and a Tarot card reader. Impossible Plays was commissioned for the Next Wave Festival's Kickstart Program, and was performed at Arts House, Melbourne, with videos shown at Federation Square and Footscray Community Centre. The show toured subsequently to the PACT Theatre's Tiny Stadiums Festival and to Crack Theatre Festival. Her 2016 performance the Tale of the Wolf is a fictional autobiography of her life as half human half wolf, set within a fictional history of wolves in Australia. The performance was developed at Odin Teatret's Tenth Holstebro Festuge, part of the European Capital of Culture Celebrations, Aahus 2017, in residency at Odin Teatret's Nordisk Teatrelaboritorium mentored briefly by Roberta Carreri in 2017, supported by the Inner West Council’s Edge Spaces program and presented as a work in progress at Teatr Brama’s Human Mosaic festival in 2018 in Goleniow, Poland.

From 2008 -  2011 Alice worked with Laleen Jayamanne in the department of Art History and Film at University of Sydney, where she completed her PhD in 2020 The Production of Luck: learning to act in the discipline of Theatre Anthropology through practical research in workshops and internships with historic Danish intercultural theatre Laboratory Odin Teatret – Nordisk Theatrelaboratorium (NTL). She has worked in socially engaged theatre contexts sine 2011 with Milk Crate Theatre, Big hArt inc., Shopfront Arts Centre, Powerhouse Youth Theatre, NIDA Open, Twenty10, and others. In 2018 she directed On The Edge for Milk Crate Theatre, a collaboration with Evolve Youth Housing for youth at risk of homelessness, presented at Parramatta Riverside. In 2018 she organised Changing the Tune: songs, theatres and social transformations, a conference workshop and barter in partnership with the Caravan Next Project a European network of social community theatres hosting two partners from this network in Sydney, supported by the City of Sydney.

Since 2021 Alice has directed The Institute of Luck which developed 2022 project Green Machine supported by the Inner West Council’s Edge Spaces Program, a performance based on a story written during Alice’s relapse scare of Hodgkin’s Lymphoma, which tells the story of a monstrous plant that invades the home of a lovely couple. The Institute of Luck is a training-based theatre company that offers workshops, develops, and presents research and performances.

Alice’s practice has been supported by Australia Council of the Arts New Work and Young Artist grants, the Ian Potter Foundation, Kath O'Niel Fellowship, Australian Postgraduate Award, Postgraduate Research Support Scheme, the City of Sydney Arts and Cultural Grants among other grants and fellowships.