CELIA WILLIAMS
Freelance Executive Producer

I believe my greatest strength in advertising and film, is my love for and ability to build and inspire a team. No one is an island in this business and whether I'm leading the team or supporting who is, I love the job.  I've also been highly successful on the production, post production and agency sides of the advertising business,  and that success has given me great insight into the overall production process and what it takes to get things done in the ever changing landscape of content production.

 Recent Whereabouts

VIRTUE, Freelance Executive Producer
February 2024- February 2025

Invisible Man NYC, Freelance Executive Producer
August 2023-February 2024

Bossy Women NYC, Freelance Executive Producer
June 2023-August 2023

Ogilvy and Mather / Chicago, Freelance Executive Producer
March 2023-June 2023

Invisible Man NYC, Freelance Executive Producer
September 2022-January 2023

The Marketing Arm, VP Director of Content Production
March 2021-August 2022

The Marketing Arm, VP Production/EP March 2020-March 2021

VMLY&R, Freelance Executive Producer October 2019-January 2020

Virtue, Freelance Executive Producer November 2018-October 2019

Freefolk NYC, Executive Post Production Producer 2016-2018

Various Agency Freelance Work 2015-2016

Ogilvy and Mather

Hudson Rouge

FCB NYC

StrawberryFrog

 Staff Work 1984-2015

mcgarrybowen, Executive Producer 2010-2015

The Martin Agency, VP/Executive Producer 2009-2010

Arnold NYC, SVP/Director of Production 2004-2009

Endless Noise, Executive Producer 2002-2004

DDB New York, Director of Broadcast Production 2000-2002

DDB Chicago, Senior Producer 1990-2000

Marshall Field’s, Senior Writer/Producer 1987-1990

Mark Berndt Productions, Line Producer 1984-1987

 2016-2018 were spent introducing a UK based post production company to NYC and the United States. This endeavor involved the physical build out and creation of a welcoming comfortable space in Soho for staff and clients, sales and marketing to an environment saturated with well established high end competition, office management and producing of in-house projects.   (Color Grading, Final Conform, VFX and Finish.)

I also have the distinct honor of working with Rethink The Conversation®, a non-profit that creates unique programs that shift perspective around issues tinged by stigma, misinformation, lack of attention or indifference. 

My specific work is in facilitating the creation of content related to grief support for teenagers impacted by suicide.

On November 18th, 2023, Suicide Survivor's Day, our first long form film was premiered at the Tribeca Film Center in NYC to great reception.

The rest of the chronology speaks for itself. References available upon request.

 Education: University of Wisconsin-Madison. BS-Art.