Wil Kilroy

The fifth exchange visit will take place this June 2001 when actor/director Wil Kilroy travels to the island of Lesvos to conduct acting workshops. As part of the exchange visit Kilroy will coach Greek actors in scenes from famous American plays which will be performed at the end of the visit. He will be hosted by the Filotechnikos Omilos Mytilinis in the city of Mytilene and, together with the director Mary Snell, will meet with local artists as well as the Minister of the Aegean and the Mayor of the Mytilene.

Wil Kilroy, currently a theatre professor at the University of Southern Maine, previously taught at Santa Monica College in California, and was a member of the Michael Chekhov Drama Group and the Hollywood Directors Lab.  Active in summer theatre for the past fifteen years, Wil has directed productions ranging from Nunsense at Maine's Strawflower Theatre to Look Back in Anger in Venice, CA.  His acting roles range from Tom in the musical Pulp Alley for New York's West Bank Theatre and Philip in the Hollywood premiere of Hotel Universe, to Caroline in the City and Babylon 5, to commercials and the daytime serials All My Children and As the World Turns.  Locally he has been seen as Joe DiMaggio in Shenanigans Productions - where he's also directed.  Wil's USM productions of A Midsummer Night's Dream and Everything Sprite were chosen for competition in the American College Theatre Festival, with Sprite also chosen for performance at New York's Village Gate.  Wil was a recipient of a faculty scholarship to the Kennedy Center in Washington, has studied at the American Academy of Dramatic Art and National Shakespeare Conservatory in New York, and holds theatre degrees from the University of Rhode Island and the University of Illinois.