Lona Williams (born September 26, 1966) is an American television
producer, writer and actress.Williams was raised in Rosemount,
Minnesota, where her father, Les, was a middle school math
teacher.[citation needed] Williams participated in a number of beauty
pageants as a child and was crowned Minnesota's Junior Miss in 1985,
before becoming the runner up in the year's America's Junior Miss,
winning a $10,000 scholarship. She graduated from Rosemount High
School shortly thereafter.[citation needed]Williams attended the
University of Minnesota and after she took a screen-writing course
there, her teacher encouraged her to move to California to find work.
After working as an assistant on one show, Jerry Belson helped her get
a job as a writing assistant on The Simpsons. She occasionally
provided voices for the show, including that of Amber Dempsey, a
single-episode character from "Lisa the Beauty Queen". She noted: "I
really was only a typist for the show. But by working on the script, I
learned how the scripts were put together. I would go to work and type
all day, and come home and work on my spec scripts for The Simpsons
and Roseanne."
producer, writer and actress.Williams was raised in Rosemount,
Minnesota, where her father, Les, was a middle school math
teacher.[citation needed] Williams participated in a number of beauty
pageants as a child and was crowned Minnesota's Junior Miss in 1985,
before becoming the runner up in the year's America's Junior Miss,
winning a $10,000 scholarship. She graduated from Rosemount High
School shortly thereafter.[citation needed]Williams attended the
University of Minnesota and after she took a screen-writing course
there, her teacher encouraged her to move to California to find work.
After working as an assistant on one show, Jerry Belson helped her get
a job as a writing assistant on The Simpsons. She occasionally
provided voices for the show, including that of Amber Dempsey, a
single-episode character from "Lisa the Beauty Queen". She noted: "I
really was only a typist for the show. But by working on the script, I
learned how the scripts were put together. I would go to work and type
all day, and come home and work on my spec scripts for The Simpsons
and Roseanne."
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