Bill Irwin, celebrated actor, director, writer, and clown, and Will Davis, director, choreographer, and Artistic Director of Rattlestick Theater, will join The Actors Center’s Resident Company this winter for development workshops exploring clown, Samuel Beckett, and the world of Sarah Ruhl’s Late: A Cowboy Song.
Bill Irwin has been honored with Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, Barrymore, and Helen Hayes Awards and is a recipient of Guggenheim, Fulbright, MacArthur and National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships.
Bill’s original works include The Regard of Flight; Largely New York (four Tony Nominations); Fool Moon; Old Hats, The Happiness Lecture; and others. He has starred in many Broadway, Off-Broadway and regional stage productions, including The Iceman Cometh; Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play); The Goat, or Who is Sylvia, opposite Sally Field; Waiting for Godot with Nathan Lane (2009 Drama Desk Award nomination); The Tempest opposite Patrick Stewart; Texts for Nothing; Largely New York; The Regard of Flight; Garden of Earthly Delights; Accidental Death of An Anarchist and the Tony Award-winning Fool Moon which he created with David Shiner.
On television, Bill can be seen in The Gilded Age, Legion, Confirmation, This Is Us, as Mr. Noodle of Elmo’s World. His film credits include Rachel Getting Married, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Eight Men Out, Interstellar, Stepping Out, among others. Irwin was an original member of Kraken, a theatre company directed by Herbert Blau, and was also an original member of the Pickle Family Circus of San Francisco.
Will Davis is the Artistic Director of Rattlestick Theater. As a director and choreographer, his work has been seen Off-Broadway at Signature Theatre, City Center, Roundabout Theatre, MTC, MCC, Playwrights Horizons, Clubbed Thumb, and Soho Rep. Regionally, his work has been seen at La Jolla Playhouse, Baltimore Center Stage, Shakespeare Theater Company, Long Wharf Theatre and ATC in Chicago where Davis previously served as Artistic Director. He received a Helen Hayes award for best direction for his work on Colossal at the Olney Theatre Center, was nominated for a Lucille Lortel award for his direction of Men on Boats at Playwrights Horizons, and is the recipient of a Princeton Arts Fellowship.
