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Mollena Williams Wikipedia Draft

Mollena “Mo” Williams (born June 20, 1969, in New York City) is a writer, actress, and BDSM educator. She is a founding member of the Crowded Fire Theater Company and the author of the Toybag Guide to Playing with Taboo (ISBN 1890159751).

Career

Williams began her professional career as a child actor at the age of four. She was in the children’s chorus for the film soundtrack to “The Wiz.” She appeared in commercials for (insert childhood credits here chronologically with links to pages). She attended New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, Playwright’s Horizon’s Wing. (add year, citation?) In 1997 she became a founding member of the Crowded Fire Theater Company in San Francisco. (insert something about that, a non-profit theater company devoted to… While working with Crowded Fire, she wrote and produced three solo shows including “69Stories: One Pervert’s Tale” developed with Anne Galjour. (Add most recent run Good Goods) She has also worked with Women’s Will, Theater Rhinoceros and Berkeley Repertory Theatre.

She performs frequently in storytelling venues, winning an audience favorite award at Bawdy Storytelling in San Francisco. Other appearances include Audacia Ray’s Red Umbrella Diaries, Carol Queen’s Perverts Put Out, and Kevin Allison’s podcast Risk!

Mollena Williams has been actively involved in the BDSM and sex positive communities as an educator, writer, performer, model and professional coordinator. She has taught her workshops on kink, BDSM & leather at MIT (did it happen?), SF(SU?), Cal State, Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Stanford, and Brown University. (all linked) (cite Yale Sex Week & events?) She has modeled for the Folsom Street Fair poster, and worked with many well know leather and fetish photographers including Michele Serchuk. She won the Ms San Francisco Leather title in 2009 and won the International Ms Leather title in 2010. She was interviewed for the oral history project conducted by the Leather Archives & Museum’s Women’s Leather History Project.

Writing

She is the author of the “Toybag Guide to Playing with Taboo” as well as the co-author with Lee Harrington of the forth-coming “Playing Well With Others.” (date & press, ISBN)

Her work has been featured in anthologies including her essay “BDSM and Race Play” in “Best Sex Writing 2010” (editor Rachel Kramer Bussel & ISBN) and “Kiss my Boots” in “The Lust Chronicles.” Her essay “race play” appears in “Spirit of Desire: Personal Explorations of Sacred Kink” and she has two chapter’s in Tristan Taormino’s “The Ultimate Guide to Kinky Sex.”

She writes a column for SexIs Magazine. (does the column have a name or a frequency). (I’m planning on adding the blog as an external link – looks less self promoting).

Personal

Mollena Williams has been very public about her alcoholism and recovery. In 2007 she founded “Safeword,” a 12-step based recovery group for kink-identified people seeking recovery from addiction.

She currently resides in New York City.

References: KPFA interview http://www.kpfa.org/archive/id/81603 The Shout storytelling http://www.mollena.com/2012/06/the-shout-june-2010/ "Shine On You Crazy Diamond: Ten Years of Porchlight" http://www.thebolditalic.com/events/4951-shine-on-you-crazy-diamond-ten-years-of-porchlight

External Links: Official Site http://www.mollena.com/