Actor-Singer-Producer Ashley C. Williams, who stars in Tom Six’s “The Human Centipede (First Sequence),” currently resides in New York City. She has an extensive background in theater and musical theater and is a graduate of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in NYC, where she received the Charles Jehlinger Award for “Best Actress” (the highest honor from the Academy.) As an actor she has toured the New York and New England area with a number of theater companies, including La Mama E.T.C., the Theater Engagement & Action Project, the Nitestar Program and the United Nations Y-Peer Project. In 2008 Ashley was a guest director and political theater trainer for the Bulgaria U.N. Y-Peer International Theater in education training. She is co-founder and vice president of Mind The Art Entertainment, an NYC-based Arts and Entertainment Company where she’s produced and starred in new work of varying art forms in venues such as the New York International Fringe Festival, the Cherry Lane Theaters Center Stage NY and the Ellen Stewart Theater. Ashley has worked with esteemed Italian actor-director Dario D'Ambrosi a number of times in his avant-garde plays, such as “Romeo and Juliet” and “Bong Bong, Ting Ting in our Heads.” In the last three years or so, Ashley has worked on a number of indie films and is best known for her role as Lindsay in “The Human Centipede (First Sequence).” She continues to work in theater and film in the NYC area. Coming soon in 2011 — Feature films: drama-thriller “Empty,” horror-comedy “Stagnant” and romantic comedy “A Guy Named Rick.” Ashley’s fan page can be found here; her personal Web site is here; and of course, this is her Internet Movie Database page can be found here. Ashley appears on the Considering the Sequels Podcast for an interview in the March 2011 BONUS episode on Extreme and Shock Cinema.
