2.28.10Bonjour from rainy Brest, France! The Witness Relocation just landed in Brittany to perform The Panic Show at Le Quartz/Festival Anticodes. We are one of 22 international acts performing in Brest, with numerous other artists performing in Paris and Lyon as a part of the tri-city Festival Anticodes. We will be performing at the Le Quartz complex, Scene Nationale de Brest, Square Beethoven, 60, rue du Chateau. Our performance times are Wed. May 3rd @ 7pm, Thurs. May 4th @ 7pm, Fri. May 5th @ 6pm, and Sat. May 6th @4pm. Tickets are just 8 euro!
Also be sure to check out the theater page for newly uploaded photos from The Picture of Dorian Gray.
2.17.10Hello from sunny Los Angeles! I just wrapped up shooting a commercial for Scottrade. It was directed by Academy-Award winner Barry Levinson!
In a few weeks the Witness Relocation is headed to France. The Panic Show will be playing in Le Quartz/Festival Anticodes in Brest, France March 3rd - 6th. Tickets are 8 euro. If you're Europe-bound, come check us out!
1.27.10The Picture of Dorian Gray has gone up, and the houses have been packed! Get your tickets before Feb 6th!
Witness Relocation has been asked to do a reading of Toshiki Okada's 5 Days in March for NYU's annual hotINK Festival. We'll be performing this Sunday, January 31st at 7pm, in the Abe Burrows Theater, NYU Tisch School of the Arts, 721 Broadway, 1st floor. Tickets are free, and available on Smarttix.
1.5.10Happy New Year! If you missed Witness Relocation's I'm Too Close to This Monster (or, The Panic Show) last November, you can catch an excerpt this Thursday. We are performing 15 minutes as a part of APAP, this Thursday night, 1.7.10, 10:10pm, at Dance New Amsterdam,, 280 Broadway, 2nd Floor (entrance on Chambers). It's free, and no reservations are required.
Press releases have gone out for The Picture of Dorian Gray, and you can read more about the show on Broadway World and TheaterMania. The play runs January 21st through February 6th, Mondays at 8pm, Tuesdays at 7pm, Wednesdays through Fridays at 8pm, and Saturdays at 2pm &8pm at Theatre Row's Kirk Theatre, 410 West 42nd Street. Tickets are $18 and can be reserved by calling Ticket Central at 212-279-4200 or online.
12.21.09I just booked and shot an industrial for AstraZeneca in Wilmington, Delaware. It's not a public project, but it was a very good gig.
Next up, I was cast as the title role in The Picture of Dorian Gray, adapted from the Oscar Wilde novel by Daniel Mitura, and directed by Henning Hegland. It will be going up at Theatre Row Studios in January and February! More info on that soon.
11.20.09Did you know you can become a fan on Facebook? For you folks on the FB, click on the link for up-to-date news about shows and projects.
11.19.09I'm Too Close to This Monster (or, The Panic Show) opens tonight! It runs this weekend, November 19th-22nd at Dance New Amsterdam. $10 rush tickets are available an hour before the show (7pm Thurs-Sat, 2pm Sun), and for those unable to make it, the Sunday 3pm performance will be streamed live on the DNA website.
We're already a critic's pick in The New York Times, The New Yorker, and Time Out New York! Fancy.
10.19.09In addition to The Panic Show being performed at DNA in November, the Witness Relocation will be rocking out for the soul-punk orchestra the WORLD/INFERNO Friendship Society for their HALLOWMAS 2009 show at the Grand Ballroom!
We'll be performing a version of Panic as one of the opening acts for their show on Oct. 31st. at 8pm. Tickets are $25 and available at Ticketmaster. The Manhattan Center Grand Ballroom is located at 311 W. 34th St., between 8th and 9th Aves.
10.6.09 Bumbershoot rocked! The Seattle Times said of the show "This is cutting-edge stuff. But it's blessedly user-friendly." The Witness Relocation is back in New York, and we're about the head back in the rehearsal room to remount and extend the Panic Show, which will be presented as a part of Splice at Dance New Amsterdam, 280 Broadway, 2nd Floor (entrance on Chambers) November 19th - 22nd, Thurs - Sat @ 8pm, Sun @ 3pm. Tickets are $17 and are available here.
Check out the film, tv, commercial & web page for some new bits: my scene from Rising Up (The Story of the Zombie Rights Movement) is now posted as well as some other voiceover projects.
8.28.09 Heading to the West Coast! Witness Relocation is heading to the Seattle and Portland to tour The Panic Show. In Seattle, we are on P.S. 122's bill of dance and performance at the Bumbershoot Festival. Come check us out on Sept. 5th and 6th, 6pm, in the Bagley Wright Theatre, 155 Mercer St., Seattle, Washington. Click here for tickets.
Then, a special showing of The Panic Show with Hand2Mouth Theatre in Portland. Sept. 7th, time TBA, at Milepost 5, 900 NE 81st St., Portland, Oregon. Check their website for the official time, and tickets.
I've almost finished shooting for Ties, my first full length feature. More information once post-production is wrapped up.
The Panic Show will come to New York in November, so stay tuned.
7.8.09 Things are getting busy.
I just uploaded an updated reel and some photos from a test shoot with Rick Day, feel free to take a look on the other pages.
Gay's Anatomy has released three episodes so far, and they're a hit! Check out the official website, or you can also find episodes on Facebook and YouTube.
I will be playing Clitandre, in Moliére's The Misanthrope as a part of the underground zero festival in New York. Show dates and times are Thurs July 16th at 7:30pm, Fri July 17th at 9:30pm, Sat July 18th at 9:30pm, and Sun July 19th at 7:30pm. Tickets are $15 and can be purchased through ovationtix. All shows will take place in the downstairs theater at P.S. 122, which is located at 150 1st Ave. between 9th and 10th Sts. in New York City.
The Witness Relocation is about to get back into the rehearsal room to create a piece tentatively titled The Panic Show. We'll be going to the Bumbershoot Festival in Seattle in early September with it, so if you're from the West Coast come on up! Dates and times for the show are still t.b.a. We'll also be bringing The Panic Show to Dance New Amsterdam in New York in November.
Also, I was cast as Leon, in Ties, a full length film directed by Hugh Mackey. We shoot in August, and I'll post more info when I have it.
Happy Summer!
6.10.09 I have just begun rehearsals for The Misanthrope by Moliére, which will go up at P.S. 122 this summer as a part of The Underground Zero Festival. It runs July 16th - 19th. More info about times and tickets soon.
Also, that webseries I was working on is about to launch! Check out Gay's Anatomy, the trailer is up now, and Episode One will go up June 18th.
4.12.09Haggadah (or The Passover Show) has closed, and was a hit! The New York Times said the Witness Relocation has "genuine theatrical know-how" and "excellent young performers." We were a pick in Backstage: "Haggadah grabs hold with an enticing playfulness... it's hard to imagine anyone wanting to be excluded from this retelling." And Culturebot called our show a "breakthrough," and that the Witness Relocation "has created what will come to be seen as a seminal work in the history of Jewish theater."
Currently I'm working on a webseries, more info on that once the episodes are ready to be released, and auditioning. Check back soon for more updates!
3.16.09 Spring is in the air, and it's time for the Witness Relocation's next show! Haggadah (or The Passover Show) is the Witness Relocation's take on Passover, The Ten Commandments, Plagues, Cecil B. DeMille, Metallica, and more. Performances are March 20-22, Fri and Sat @ 7:30pm, Sun @ 2:30pm, and March 26-29, Thurs-Sat @ 7:30, Sun @ 2:30pm. Haggadah will be performed at La MaMa's Annex Theater located at 74A E. 4th Street between The Bowery & 2nd Ave. Tickets are $25, but use the discount code MOSES and get them for $18 Get them on the La MaMa website or call the box office at 212.475.7710.
Also, Rising Up: The Story of the Zombie Rights Movement, the mockumentary I shot last November, was accepted into the Boston International Film Festival! The film will be screening at the festival during Session 33 from 9:00pm to 11:30pm on Friday the 24th of April in Boston at the AMC/Loews Cineplex at 175 Tremont St. on Boston Common. Tickets for the session are $10 per person and go on sale starting Monday, March 16th directly online, by calling the AMC/Loews Cineplex at 888.267.4386 or through the box office at 617.482.3900.
And lastly, Gilla Roos Ltd., the print and commercial agency that I have worked with since 2007, has sadly closed its doors after 35 years of business. On a brighter note, Ramona Pitera, the former Head of the On-Camera and Commercial Department, has forged ahead and opened her own agency, Ramona's Model and Talent LLC. More info to follow regarding how to contact for bookings and castings.
2.8.09 The Blue Bird racked up some great reviews! Check out the NY Times and Time Out New York. The Witness Relocation will begin rehearsing the next project, a still untitled Passover show, next week, and it will go up at La MaMa E.T.C. in March 2009. Check back for more details.
12.13.08 Here is the info for The Blue Bird, the Witness Relocation's new show:
The Blue Bird will be performed January 7 to 24, 2009 at Clemente Soto Velez, 107 Suffolk Street, NYC (between Rivington and Delancey). The Blue Bird will play Wednesdays through Saturdays at 7:30 pm with one 3pm Sunday matinee on January 11th. Tickets are $18 and $12 for students. The box office number is (212) 868-4444 . Online ticketing is available at www.smarttix.com.
11.25.08The website for Dance Dance Revolution is up and running. Check it out, it opens December 3rd at the Ohio Theater and runs until the 20th.
Also, Wil is reprising his role as Konishi in The Blue Bird, written by Mikuni Yanaihara, translated by Aya Ogawa and Kameron Steele, directed by Dan Safer with the Witness Relocation Company. It opens early January 2009, and will run at the Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center in the Lower East Side.
And Wil also shot his first commercial for the New York Times. It will run in the tri-state area for quite some time.
11.9.08Wil was cast as Peter Merchant, politically active 60's tennis star in Rising Up: The Story of the Zombie Civil Rights Movement, a documentary written and directed by Brendan and Laura O'Brien. Check out the website for more info, and for the future release date.
Also, Wil was cast as Omar in Flight 123, written by Leila Buck and directed by Lauren Keating. It will be a part of The Internationalists' Around the World in 24 Hours, a festival of new plays and translations from across the globe. The festival begins Saturday Nov. 15th at 5pm, and ends on Sunday Nov. 16th at 5pm. Flight 123 will be performed at 10am, Sunday Nov. 16th, at The Space - 300 W 43rd St. on the corner of 8th Ave., 4th floor. There is a suggested donation of $5 which grants access to all of the plays.
Coming up soon, Wil is reprising his role as Carrot Lips, in Alex Timbers' and Les Freres Corbusier's Dance Dance Revolution, loosely based off the video game. Timbers wrote the piece and presented it at the Williamstown Theatre Festival in 2005, and this December it will go up at the Ohio Theatre - 66 Wooster St., between Spring and Broome St. Performances are Tuesdays through Sundays, Dec. 3rd - 20th, all shows 8pm. Tickets are available through Smarttix.
7.15.08Wil was recently cast in MCC's Freshplay Festival as Jared in Apple Vargas' POOF. POOF will perform August 7th and the 9th @ the Peter Jay Sharp Theater, Playwrights Horizons, 416 W. 42nd St. between 9th and 10th Avenues. Tickets are $10, student tickets are $5. To reserve tickets please call (212) 727-7722 ex. 228 and leave a message with your name, number of student and/or adult tickets, the performance you want to attend, and a number at which to reach you.
6.9.08Wil was cast as Ryazan, in TR Warszawa's Macbeth, produced by St. Ann's Warehouse, and performed at the open air Tobacco Warehouse, underneath the Brooklyn Bridge. Performances run Tuesday June 17th until Sunday June 29th, all shows 9pm. Tickets can be acquired through the website or by calling 718.254.8779 or 866.811.4111.
4.23.08Watch Wil every Wednesday on the Warner Bros. web series Viralcom!
2.21.08Wil booked and shot an industrial for a new board game, "X Vs. Y," which hopes to hit the market this fall.
2.06.08Wil is currently working on two workshops and a play in New York. This February and March, come check out any and all of them!
First, a workshop reading of "Captain Overlord's Folly or the Fool's Revenge," written and directed by John Clancy, produced by Clancy Productions and performed at the 6th floor rehearsal studio of the Ohio Theater. The performance is Sunday, February 17th, at 3:30pm, at 64 Wooster St., 6th floor.
Second, a dance theater workshop of a Passover Play, tentatively titled "Blood and Frogs," directed by Dan Safer and created by the Witness Relocation Company. The performance is Tuesday, February 19th, in the evening (7pm) at the Center for Jewish History, 15 W 16th St, near 5th Ave.
Lastly, a run of Ian McWethy's new comedy "Actors are F#%king Stupid," directed by Michael Kimmel and produced by Push Productions. Performances are Wednesday thru Saturday, at 8pm, February 15th - March 15 at the Wild Project, 195 E. 3rd St.
Hope you can come out!