Wil Petre was born in Hanover, New Hampshire, and grew up in Westchester County. At 18 he was accepted and enrolled in NYU’s prestigious Tisch School of the Arts where he majored in Drama and minored in Art and Public Policy. He spent his first three years at the Playwrights Horizons Theater School where he studied acting, directing, design, voice and African dance, and finished his college career at the Classical Studio, led by Louis Scheeder.

At 22, Wil graduated with honors, and after a brief stint in Madrid, settled back in New York. He has had the pleasure of working with many theater companies, including the Witness Relocation Company. With WR, he has co-created two original pieces: Haggadah (or, The Passover Show) and I’m Too Close to This Monster (or, The Panic Show), and performed in three others: In a Hall in the Palace of Pyrrhus, The Blue Bird, and Toshiki Okada’s 5 Days in March. With Witness Relocation, he has toured to Seattle, Portland, and Brest, France.

He has also worked with Alex Timbers/Les Freres Corbusier on two productions: the Drama Desk-nominated Hell House at St. Ann’s Warehouse, and Dance Dance Revolution at the Ohio Theatre. He’s performed in a number of plays, webseries, television pilots, a couple of feature films, and is also in that omnipresent New York Times Weekender commercial.

While not performing, Wil enjoys brewing coffee, writing very short poems, cooking and maneuvering through New York on his bicycle. He currently lives in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn and tries to travel to and explore at least one new country or state every year.