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!
