• Email address: bookings(at)donnawilliams.net
• Web site: www.donnawilliams.net

• Entered as mature a age returning student (previously left secondary education at age 15 with three years in the workforce before resuming education).
• Passes in Social Psychology, Sociology, Biology, English.
• Qualified for entry to university.

• Took a double major in Linguistics and Sociology before majoring in Sociology.
• Achieved a BA in the school of Social Sciences.

• Sociology Honours. Thesis on “Deviance and normality as exercises in alienation”.
• Achieved BA Hons in Sociology.

• Achieved a Dip Ed with a ‘High Recommendation’.
• Qualified to teach Primary School level and to teach Social Studies at a Secondary School level.

I featured in four television documentaries:

• 1993: Autism, Emotion and Behavior, Eye to Eye with Connie Chung, USA
• 1995: Jam Jar, Fresh Film, in association with Channel 4, UK
• 1995: Krankheit Als Schicksal, Spiegel TV, Germany
• 1995: Yokoso Watashi No Sekai E "Jiheisho" Donna Williams, NHK, Japan

and five other television appearances:

• 1992: Person Of The Week on Peter Jennings, ABC News, USA
• 1998: Midlands Today Evening News, UK : appeared with my life sized sculpture, My World, The World
• 1994: Norwegian Evening News, Norway.
• 1999: BBC, UK.
• 2006: Insight, SBS, Australia.
• 2007: Win News, Channel 9, Australia.

• New York Times (US)
• Los Angeles Times (US)
• Boston Globe (US)
• Washington Post (US)
• Toronto Star (Canada)
• National Post (Canada)
• Maclean’s Magazine (Canada)
• Mirabella (US)
• Life Magazine (UK)
• Hello (UK)
• Women’s Day (UK)
• The Guardian (UK)
• The Mail (UK)
• The Express (UK)
• The Independent (UK)
• The Age (Australia)
• Leader (Australia)
• MX (Australia)
• Other publications in Norway, Germany, Israel, France, Japan, Italy.

• Women’s Hour, Jenny Murray, BBC, UK
• Morningside Program, Peter Gzowski, CBC, Canada
• National Public Radio, New York, USA
• Autism One Radio, USA
• ABC, Sydney, Australia
• 3CR, Melbourne, Australia
• MDR, Melbourne, Australia
• Also featured on German radio.

(* denotes solo exhibit)

• 1997: Sculpture Exhibition, Malvern Hills College, Great Malvern, UK
• 1998: * Victorian Water Cure Exhibition, Malvern Museum, Great Malvern, UK (Commissioned museum exhibit for public display)
• 2006: * Autism and Sensing; the Unlost Instinct, Vanguard Gallery, Melbourne, Australia

• 2004: Postcard Exhibition, Linden Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
• 2004: Masterpiece in a Day, Monash Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
• 2004: Charity Art Auction, ABIQ international conference, Brisbane, Australia
• 2004: * Original works and prints, Ecology Shop Café, Melbourne, Australia (solo)
• 2005: * Original works and prints, Art@8, Melbourne, Australia (solo)
• 2005: * Original works and prints, Green Bean Café, Melbourne, Australia (solo)
• 2005: Charity Art Auction, ABIQ international conference, Brisbane, Australia
• 2005: Frankston International Music Festival Art Exhibition, Melbourne, Australia (Invited exhibitor).
• 2006: * Autism and Sensing; the Unlost Instinct, Vanguard Gallery, Melbourne, Australia (solo)
• 2007: * Alternative Normalities, Gallery 15, Melbourne, Australia
• 2007: Creative Futures, Queensland, Australia
• 2007: Charity Art Auction, Spectrum, Cornwall, UK
• 2007: Starbucks, Normal, Illinois, USA
• 2008: * Alternative Normalities, Grenfell Gallery, Adelaide, Australia

• 1990: Nobody Nowhere became a number one international best-seller and was the first mainstream published autobiography of a person diagnosed with autism. It was a controversial and groundbreaking book at that time which became translated into 20 languages, was 10 weeks at number one on the New York Times Best-Seller list and sold over half a million copies. Its worldwide exposure paved the way for so many others who have since had their works published throughout the world.
• 1992: Somebody Somewhere also became an international number one best-seller.
• 1996: Autism; An Inside Out Approach.
• 1998: Autism and Sensing; The Unlost Instinct.
• 1998: Like Colour To The Blind.
• 2003: Exposure Anxiety; The Invisible Cage of Involuntary Self Protection Responses.
• 2004: Everyday Heaven.
• 2004: Not Just Anything.
• 2005: The Jumbled Jigsaw.

• 1999: Nobody Nowhere (named after the book)
• 2005: Mutation

In 2000 two songs from the Nobody Nowhere album were featured in a Japanese TV series, Things You Taught Me (TBS) and released on the soundtrack for the film.

• 2005: Wrote the screenplay to Nobody Nowhere (now under option to Hollywood producer Beverly Nero).
• 2005-2006: Wrote 5 other feature films, now represented by a Hollywood film agent, Liz Hanley of Bicoastal Talent, Burbank, CA.
• 2007: Awarded a commendation for the feature film screenplay The Tower.