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Shannon Williams
Sometimes credited as: Shannon O. Williams
Vocal Range: Tenor - Baritone · Height: 5' 11" · Weight: 175 · Hair Color: Brown (Buzzed) · Eye Color: Green-Blue · Training: Acting: Richard Niles, Todd Neal - NYC; Dance: Ginger Prince, Matthew Mohr - NYC/Martie Fellom - La. · Special Skills: Sight Singing; Clown Training; Modern, Jazz Dance; Linklater; Trumpet; Improvisationalist; Dialects · Hometown: New Orleans, LA · High School: Covington High School · College: Tulane University, Marymount Manhattan, LSU, SLU, UNO. · Occupation: Producer / Non-Profit Development
born. A bitterly cold Thanksgiving day in the city that care forgot.
education. B.A., Theatre, B.A. English Tulane University
Having finally returned home to New Orleans after an over-extended stay within the thirty-mile zone known as Hollywood, Shannon recently made his triumphant return to the New Orleans boards starring in ...Read More
born. A bitterly cold Thanksgiving day in the city that care forgot.
education. B.A., Theatre, B.A. English Tulane University
Having finally returned home to New Orleans after an over-extended stay within the thirty-mile zone known as Hollywood, Shannon recently made his triumphant return to the New Orleans boards starring in the world premiere of "Cobalt Blue, Disaster 1604 Parts 1 & 2" by acclaimed new playwright Louis Crowder as well as the critical smash "Valhalla" at the Marigny Theatre. His illustrious stage career spans 20 “very” odd years and has had him playing (and displaying) all manner of parts. While in Los Angeles, he relished creating the roles of Cecil Kumquat in Chico’s Angels:Pretty Chicas All In A Row and The Cat in Suicide, the Musical. He has been seen on the road touring as both Jack & The Baker with Into the Woods as well as enjoying critical success in Pensacola, FL (no jokes please) with the Loblolly Theatre’s production of Aristophanes’ Helen. His NYC work both Off-Broadway and WAY-Off Broadway has taken him from strutting about in the nude in Alan Bowe’s Beirut, to strutting about in drag in Steel Dragnolias, to just plain strutting as the Vicompte de Valmont in Christopher Hampton’s Les Liasons Dangereuses to name a few.
Further proof of his genetic deficit of what most humans call shame can be seen on E!TV’s “The Anna Nicole Show” while in drag and as “himself” on the G4 series “Wired for Sex.” Those 15 minutes started ticking, he maintains, with his hyper-publicized win at the Tennessee Williams Literary Festival’s Stella Screaming Contest which led to his appearing as Dateline NBC’s “Picture of the Week” amongst a slew of other media exposure.
“To be able to create remains my passion, but music will always be the air and sustenance that sustains me,” he has said. Shannon has sang with countless bands of all styles (country, R&B, Soul, Pop, Blues, Bluegrass, and Jazz to name a few) as well as his solo work for 24 years and counting. He has also been seen as a regular guest performer in NYC with the outrageous burlesque revival show, The VA VA Voom Room.
Never one to rest with just the ridiculous and sublime as accomplishments, his essays and editorials have been featured in Southern Voice, MMC Today, The Times-Picayune, Fastband Globalcast, and number of other E-Zines.
His production company, Foxie Moxie Productions, was founded in 2004 in Los Angeles. Current projects include the forthcoming 4-Man cabaret show What You Don’t Know About Women, bringing two original musicals to New Orleans for production from both NYC and L.A., a photography book about old business signs in New Orleans, and the web-based show Pornucopia. He can be reached at ShannonOWilliams@gmail.com.
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