William is an alumnus of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and over the past 40+ years, he has acted, sung, performed, directed, produced, and/or written hundreds of performances. He later studied theatre under Cecil Pickett and Sidney Berger at the Univ. of Houston, and toured the Midwest performing and assisting the development of new plays with playwrights Robert Patrick and Stephen Nelson. William is a United States Navy veteran and he holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology and a Doctorate in Jurisprudence, both from the University of Houston.
Plays
In The Why Are You Here People Bob is an Iraq war vet who, like so many, has brought much of the war home with him. By his own admission he’s not a nice person. Betty is a soccer mom whom Bob calls a busybody. Their meeting in a doctor’s office sets them on a course toward conflict, humor, and ultimately understanding.
For the past 50 years, Bernie Bloomberg and Sol Rabinowicz have run the hardware store in New York that Sol's father had bequethed to them. Bernie has accrued huge gambling debts and is being leaned on heavily by some very scary thugs. Sol convinces Bernie that he could talk the bookie into cutting Bernie some slack. Sol makes such a mess of things that the guys end up in the witness protection program, in rural Texas. Comedy 2M, 65-80 y/o
Successes
The Why Are You Here People was published in Middle Tennessee State University's SHIFT literary journal.