Gail Ann Williams (born in Berkeley, California) has been the director
of The WELL since . She graduated from the University of California,
Berkeley in the s and got involved in political theater as both a
creative and management member of the Plutonium Players troupe. She
was a principal in their long-touring satirical show spoofing
anti-feminist politics, Ladies Against Women, throughout the years of
the Ronald Reagan presidency. The show was inspired in part by the
anti-feminist campaigns of Phyllis Schlafly, who was parodied by the
troupe as Phyllis LeShaft.In the same period the troupe created the
"Reagan for Shah Campaign," featuring numerous fictional constituent
organizations of which Ladies Against Women was the most popular. The
show toured the East and West Coasts in and performed outside the
Republican Convention in Dallas in . Both Ladies Against Women and
Reagan for Shah were cited by Andrew Boyd as helping to inspire his
Billionaires for Bush theatrical project. In December , she joined the
management team of the prototypic online community, The WELL, in the
role of community manager. In she took the post of Executive
Director. When The WELL was acquired by Salon.com in , Williams stayed
on. Currently she serves as Salon's Director of Communities,
overseeing The WELL and Salon's Table Talk community.She is a member
of the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences. In
Williams was named as one of the Top Women of the Web.
of The WELL since . She graduated from the University of California,
Berkeley in the s and got involved in political theater as both a
creative and management member of the Plutonium Players troupe. She
was a principal in their long-touring satirical show spoofing
anti-feminist politics, Ladies Against Women, throughout the years of
the Ronald Reagan presidency. The show was inspired in part by the
anti-feminist campaigns of Phyllis Schlafly, who was parodied by the
troupe as Phyllis LeShaft.In the same period the troupe created the
"Reagan for Shah Campaign," featuring numerous fictional constituent
organizations of which Ladies Against Women was the most popular. The
show toured the East and West Coasts in and performed outside the
Republican Convention in Dallas in . Both Ladies Against Women and
Reagan for Shah were cited by Andrew Boyd as helping to inspire his
Billionaires for Bush theatrical project. In December , she joined the
management team of the prototypic online community, The WELL, in the
role of community manager. In she took the post of Executive
Director. When The WELL was acquired by Salon.com in , Williams stayed
on. Currently she serves as Salon's Director of Communities,
overseeing The WELL and Salon's Table Talk community.She is a member
of the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences. In
Williams was named as one of the Top Women of the Web.
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