Megan Williams

Megan Williams is an American film producer, director, and advocate for the deaf.

Career Williams worked as a television journalist. Williams was an adjunct professor at the USC School of Cinematic Arts.

In 1972, Williams, along with Allen Rucker, Michael Shamberg, Tom Weinberg, and Hudson Marquez, co-founded the video collective: TVTV, a collective of documentary filmmakers who ran guerrilla television.

Williams was awarded the 1974 "Alfred I. du Pont/Columbia University Award in Broadcast Journalism" (DuPont Award) for her work on the documentary: Lord of the Universe.

In 1988 Williams produced Language Says It All, a film about the lives of parents and deaf children. Language Says It All was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short.

For her long-term commitment in the field of deaf advocacy, Williams received the Lee Katz Award from the American Society for Deaf Children.

Williams was married to producer Michael Shamberg.