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Wil KilroyWil Kilroy is a Professor of Theatre at the University of Southern Maine. Previously, he taught at Santa Monica College in California and was a member of the Michael Chekhov Drama Group, appearing in the premier of Enroute, directed by Lisa Dalton. Wil's extensive acting credits range from musicals such as Fiddler on the Roof, to Hamlet, to TV's All My Children. Recent commercials include "Release HD" and Vivarex, the TV spokesman for "Maine Tax Amnesty." Wil's training includes study at the Michael Chekhov Studio in New York, the American Academy of Dramatic Art, the National Shakespeare Conservatory and theatre degrees from the University of Illinois and the University of Rhode Island. He is a Kennedy Center Scholarship recipient, having studied acting there with Uta Hagen. As a director, Wil's credits range from Nunsense at Maine's Strawflower Theatre, Everything Sprite at New York's Village Gate, to numerous university productions-three of which were chosen for competition in the Kennedy Center's American College Theatre Festival.

 

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