Angela Richardson leads a dynamic creative life as a performer and visual artist in Madison, Wisconsin.

She’s acted in numerous short films and videos, as well as television commercials. Her live performance credits range from comedy and children’s theatre to neo-burlesque and trapeze. Angela is also an experienced public speaker, improviser, and event emcee.

She’s collaborated with Aaron Yonda and Matt Sloan of Blame Society Productions in work appearing on Channel101.com. Tona Williams of Bigbite Productions is frequent creative partner. Angela is a member of the Wis-Kino Filmmaking Collaborative, part of the Kino International Microcimena movement.

In 1995, she co-founded Chick Chat, which created over 20 programs "produced for, by, and about women" for local television broadcast. The group received numerous grants and awards, including a 1997 honor from the National Telemedia Council for a teen mentoring program/production workshop series. She has done presentations on media literacy for many school groups, ranging in age from elementary school to college.

A founding member of Cherry Pop Burlesque, Angela has performed regularly with the troupe at the Club Majestic since its July 2004 premiere. Staged in the historic, former Majestic Theatre, the show reworks vaudeville for a contemporary audience and brings neo-burlesque to Madison. One of her most popular characters, Olive Talique, took to the stage at Tease-O-Rama 2005 in San Francisco, CA.

She has danced on trapeze with Cycropia Aerial Dance for the past five years.

Born in Brooklyn, New York but raised in the Midwest, she grew up in Freeport, Illinois, “Home of the Pretzels” (pop. 25,000). Angela spent a year in Tokyo, Japan as a Rotary International Youth Exchange Student. She graduated from the UW with a BA degree in Media and Gender, an individual major.