Virgil Williams is an American screenwriter. He has written for television shows like ''24'' and ''ER'', as well as films such as ''The Piano Lesson'' and ''Mudbound'', for which he and director

Dee Rees Diandrea Rees (born February 7, 1977) is an American screenwriter and director. She is known for her feature films ''Pariah (2011 film), Pariah'' (2011), ''Bessie (film), Bessie'' (2015), ''Mudbound (film), Mudbound'' (2017), and ''The Last Thing ...

received a Best Adapted Screenplay nomination.

Career

Williams began working in television as a writer for '' 24'', for which he wrote a single episode during the first season in 2002. He was then hired as a story editor for the show's second season and reprised his role as a writer for the third season, contributing one more episode. In total, he scripted four episodes of the show. Later, in 2005, Williams became a co-producer and writer for ''ER'' during its twelfth season. He wrote two episodes for the twelfth season, "Two Ships" and "Strange Bedfellows". Williams was then promoted to producer and writer for the thirteenth season and wrote two more episodes, "Jigsaw" and "From Here to Paternity". For the fourteenth season, he was promoted to supervising producer, during which he wrote three episodes: "Gravity", "Believe the Unseen", and "Tandem Repeats". He remained a supervising producer for the fifteenth and final season and wrote two more episodes entitled "Oh, Brother" and "Separation Anxiety". In 2011, Williams joined the writer staff of ''

Criminal Minds ''Criminal Minds'' is an American police procedural crime drama television series created by Jeff Davis that premiered on CBS on September 22, 2005. It follows a group of criminal profilers who work for the FBI as members of its Behavioral ...

'', for which he wrote ten episodes and worked as a co-executive producer. In 2016, actor

Thomas Gibson Thomas Ellis Gibson (born July 3, 1962) is an American actor and director best known for his roles as Aaron Hotchner on ''Criminal Minds'' (2005–16), Greg Montgomery on '' Dharma & Greg'' (1997–2002) and Daniel Nyland on '' Chicago Hope'' ...

allegedly kicked Williams in the shin during the production of an episode in which Gibson was directing, leading to Gibson's removal from the production. In 2017, Williams signed a deal with Universal Television. After co-writing the film ''

Mudbound ''Mudbound'' (2008) is the debut novel by American author Hillary Jordan. It has been translated into French, Italian, Serbian, Norwegian, Swedish, and Turkish and has sold more than 250,000 copies worldwide. The novel took Jordan seven years ...

—''adapted from the novel of the same name by

Hillary Jordan Hillary Jordan is an American novelist. She grew up in Dallas and Muskogee, Oklahoma and now lives in Brooklyn. She received a BA from Wellesley College and an MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University. and has written two novels: ''Mudbo ...

—with director

, the two received a nomination for the

Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay The Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay is the Academy Award for the best screenplay adapted from previously established material. The most frequently adapted media are novels, but other adapted narrative formats include stage plays, mus ...

in 2017. In 2024, Williams co-wrote the

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film ''

The Piano Lesson ''The Piano Lesson'' is a 1987 play by American playwright August Wilson. It is the fourth play in Wilson's ''The Pittsburgh Cycle''. Wilson began writing this play by playing with the various answers regarding the possibility of "acquir nga s ...

'' with its debut director, Malcolm Washington.

Filmography

Films

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