William Snow is a writer and translator living in Paris. After language and comparative literature studies at St. Mark's School, he graduated from Hampshire College where he studied translating/linguistics with a minor in performing arts. His thesis study of the Ballets Russes was published in Ballet Review magazine. After moving to Paris, he became the correspondent for Ballet Review, formed a dance company and worked as a choreographer throughout Europe.

From 1987-1990 he worked with the Carolyn Carlson dance/theatre company at the Théâtre de la Ville in Paris as manager, publicist and dramatist, collaborating on two productions (Dark, Steppe) and three films (Una donna una città, RAI 2; La Barque sacrée, La Sept; Dark, SVT) with the company. He subsequently became a freelance writer/translator and consultant on bilingual publications, writing children's books for the Walt Disney Co. (The Little Mermaid, Lady and the Tramp, Aladdin and the King of Thieves); translating a bilingual theatre journal, Actes du théâtre, for Entr'Actes/SACD (French Dramatists & Composers Guild); and adapting plays such as Jaoui & Bacri's Un air de famille into English, among other published works.

After receiving a playwriting grant from the French Ministry of Culture, he wrote Alexandra David-Nèel et la magie ordinaire, adapted it into English under the title Ordinary Magic, and attended a playwriting residency at La Chartreuse/Centre national des Ecritures du spectacle in Villeneuve-lez-Avignon. He has written a documentary film script, Patterns of Passion, about bullfighting and its cultural ramifications in the south of France, and translated Anima, a screenplay by Christophe Pascal (author/director of the film Le Regard de Vincent about Vincent Van Gogh's life in Auvers-sur-Oise), with whom he has also written the script for a documentary film on Vermeer entitled Vermeer and the Invisible.

His many translations include:

FILM/TELEVISION - Screenplays/subtitles for: Ciné-Titres, Pathé Télévision, S.F.P., Titra-Films, U.G.C., Vidéothèque de Paris, les Auditoriums de Joinville, France Animation, XIII bis (Anima; Premier Pas; Joy; Thèse Raquin; documentaire on I.M. Pei and the Louvre, etc.)

PERFORMING ARTS - Dance: l'Esquisse (bilingual, Eds. Les Films Angle d'Ailes, Paris, 1991); Le Ballet, Boris Kochno (excerpts); Texts for choreographers Carolyn Carlson (Théâtre de la Ville), Daniel Larrieu (Centre Chorégraphique National de Tours) and Philippe Decouflé (DCA). Theatre: Plays: Pinocchio's Tears, 2004 (adapted from L'Hiver de la cigale by Pietro Pizzuti); Family Business, 1996 (adapted from Un air de famille by Jaoui & Bacri); Ordinary Magic, 1995 (adapted from A. David-Néel et la Magie Ordinaire by Snow & Hafkin)

PUBLICATIONS - Issues 1-19 of Actes du théâtre, a bilingual review (Entr'Actes/SACD, 1995-2004); editor for the English edition of Nurit Yaari's Contemporary French Theatre 1960-1992. Super-titles for Antigone, performed by Ku Naíuka in the ancient stadium of Delphi, Greece, July 2004

TOURISM/TRAVEL - Translator/reader for Michelin NEOS Guides to: Greece, Cuba, Guatemala, Vietnam, Turkey, Indonesia; GREEN Guides to: Paris, Northern France, Mainland Greece, Greek Islands; In Your Pocket Guides to Rome, Vienna, London, Budapest; Mini-guide to Paris, etc. Turkey: An Aerial Portrait (Thames and Hudson, London, 1993; Harry F. Abrams, N.Y., 1994); Eurodisney Resort Paris: The Guide (Harmsworth Magazines, London, 1992)

VISUAL ARTS/MUSEUMS - Catalogues for: the Fondation Cartier (Chéri Samba); MAAOA/La Vieille Charité (Paysages Revés); Le Fresnoy, Studio National des Arts Contemporains English texts for the Maison Champlain Museum introduction to a book on painter Max Papart

ESSAYS/POETRY/SHORT STORIES - A Rose from Distant Galaxies by Andrée Caraire (La Rose des Galaxies Lointaines, bilingual, Eds d'Art J. Boulan, Paris,1992); In Search of Dolphin Messages by Claude Traks (A la recherche du message des dauphins, Eds. Communicare, 2000); Marie et le vin by Claire Huynen (extracts); Le maître de la laque by Ariane Buisset (extracts)

MARKETING - Brochures: French Ministry of Culture, American Center Reports, studies: Warner Bros., Disney, Ahlstrom, Lego
Trend notebooks, press releases: Christian Dior, Lanvin, Cerruti
Company newsletters: Cie. Intl. des Wagons-Lits, Genesys