By Jairo Rodrigues
Theatre Guild diehards will remember his memorable performances as Moustique in the Dereck Walcott play Dream on Monkey Mountain and as Brother Jero in The Jero Plays by Wole Soyinka, but Guyanese Eugene Williams, current Director of the Jamaica School of Drama has, for a number of years, been directing and teaching rather than acting.
Born in Beterverwagting on the East Coast Demerara where he lived until age 16, Eugene started working at the post office at age 14 and was later transferred to Cane Grove then to Mahaica and finally to Kitty. After about two years at Kitty Post Office he entered the civil service – working at the Ministry of Health where he moved up from being a clerk to the Secretary of the Central Board of Health.
In an online interview with The Scene, Eugene recalled that his father died when he was about four years old, so for most of his life his immediate family was his mother and sister. His mother, a
