LESLIE WILLIAMS

Leslie Williams


Height: 5' 6"
Weight: 120
Hair: Brown (long)
Eyes: Blue




 

TRAINING

  • The Berubians Theater Company, Santa Ana/Los Angeles
    • Comedy improvisation (ongoing workshop)
  • Del Mar Media Arts, Irvine, CA
    • TV Commercial Workshop
    • Film I
    • Intermediate Film II
  • Ongoing series of self-contained classes, Huntington Beach, CA
    • cold reading
    • monologue
    • scene study
    • improvisation
    • script and character analysis
  • Valletta Productions Acting Courses, Carlsbad, CA
    • Business of Acting
    • Advanced Cold Reading
    • Improvisation
    • Scene Study & Analysis
    • On-Camera Skills
  • The Orange County Crazies Improvisational Comedy School, Santa Ana, CA
  • Basic Insanity Comedy Improvisation Workshop, Newport Beach, CA

FILM
 

"Destination 2000"
NYU Grad film
featured highway patrol officer
"Harrington's Notes"
Ind. comedy-drama
featured (forest ranger)
"the Cold Reading"
Ind. video comedy short
principal (actor auditioning)
"Love, Death, and Cars"
USC Grad dramatic short
featured (mother of student)
"Clara's Wings"
CalArts dramatic short
principal (spirit of mother)

STAGE
 

"A Comedy of Errors"
Huntington Beach Playhouse
Merchant
"The Bed Plays"
Costa Mesa Civic Playhouse
Edith Higgins, "Borderline" 
and Hypnos, "Uneasy Lies the Head"
"Promenade All"
Cabrillo Playhouse
Mother H, Grandmother H, Doris, 
Grandmother Doris, and Joan
"Six At Eight" 1999
Vanguard Theatre Ensemble
Shraine,"A Rustle of Wings"
"The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie"
Newport Theatre Arts Center
Sister Helena
"Laura"
Long Beach Playhouse 
Bessie Clary
"See How They Run"
Irvine Community Theatre
Miss Skillon
"Six At Eight" 1998
Camino Real Playhouse
Phyllis Miller,"Sunday in Suburbia"
"The House of Blue Leaves"
Stages Entertainment Group
Head Nun
"The Constant Wife"
Newport Theatre Arts Center
Barbara Fawcett
"Laura"
Camino Real Playhouse
Bessie Clary

TELEVISION
 

"My Back Yard"
Ind. pilot sit-com
principal, retired entertainer/landlady

EXPERIENCE
 

U.S. Marine Corps, Air Traffic Control & Public Affairs specialties, 20 years 
(currently serving in the reserve component).

SKILLS
 

U.S.M.C.: Weapons training; M16A1 assault rifle, .45 and .9 caliber pistols, water survival training, land navigation orienteering, rock rappelling, air traffic control systems, and computing.
New England, Southern, Irish, English, Scottish, and French accents, speak/read Italian and some French.

INTERESTS
 

Dog raising, training, and showing; swimming, tennis, table tennis, softball, and volleyball; riding horses, bicycles, motorcycles, and Malibu Grand Prix racing; hiking and river rafting; playing pool, volunteer 8th/9th grade teaching, publishing poetry in The National Library of Poetry anthologies, and Laguna Beach Pageant of the Masters volunteer.


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