Karen Williams

Karen Williams is recognized as that thin Dark lesbian stand-up comic with too much to say as well as the present for telling it within a screamingly funny method. Heads switch at her rapid-paced raps on one motherhood, dating, interactions, celibacy, AIDS, financial inequity, racism, codependency, and whatever subject strikes her extravagant, or object through the viewers catches her interest. Viewers marvel at her solid and thoughtful existence, her acute recognition, but it can be her attitude — anger and angst masked behind diffidence — which provides her observations house. Once a model and a significant dancer of African-Haitian and Contemporary styles, presently a dedicated Buddhist, Williams considers her non-humorous composing of great sustaining importance. She’s acted inside a division store TV industrial and in a play on lesbian existence. Born within the Bronx (“What two towns are so essential they are usually called from the prefix,’the?’ THE Bronx as well as the Vatican”), Williams was raised amidst innovative and energetic people. Through her eventual relocation towards the Western Coastline, she garnered a panoply of California jokes (“What’s tofu anyhow? I dispose of my aged sponges”). Williams debuted in and advertised herself during the night night clubs within the SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA Bay Region. Interspersed with her worldwide successes like a comic, she actually is increasing two boys, creating a network for touring ladies performers, learning French, and financing her organizational abilities and political dedication to AWMAC, the Association of Women’s Music and Tradition, as their Chief executive. Her recordings consist of 1996’s Outrageous and 1997’s WAY TO AVOID IT.