Elisabeth Williams
- Visual designer
- Artistic director
Elisabeth Williams has been a visual designer/artistic director in film and television for 20 years. She has worked on projects of various styles, including psychological dramas, dreamlike and futuristic worlds, horror films, as well as period series and films. She has climbed the ranks, gaining experience in various project styles, from American films like The Score and The Human Stain to Quebecois TV series (Ces Gars-là and Les Invincibles) and American ones (Fargo, The Handmaid’s Tale).
Her diverse and varied experiences, coupled with ongoing training in drawing and design, have allowed her to stand out in Quebec, Canada, and the United States.
Since 2017, she has been involved in the visual design of the extraordinary series The Handmaid’s Tale (MGM/HULU), a role that has earned her 3 Emmy awards, an ADG award, and 2 Directors Guild of Canada awards for Best Production Design (for Fargo and The Handmaid’s Tale).
Elisabeth is fascinated by the psyche and strives to translate fear, obsession, anxiety, and quirks into something visible and tangible. Her interest in psychology and sociology drives her to delve into the lives of characters and find ways to expose the various layers of their story, those beyond the script, those that are universal and relatable to the audience.
Over the years, Elisabeth has collaborated with directors such as Denis Villeneuve (Polytechnique - set decorator), François Bouvier (Prozac), Martin Villeneuve (Mars et Avril), Daniel Roby (la Faille 3) and François Ozon (Je suis femme - artistic director), as well as Jeff Barnaby (Rhymes for Young Ghouls), Dominic James (Die), and Stobe Harju (Imaginareum) for their debut feature films. All projects made in Quebec.