Bill Connington is a New York-based actor and playwright. His play ZOMBIE is an award-winning adaptation of the novella by Joyce Carol Oates. It played first at the New York International Fringe Festival, then enjoyed a 3-month extended run Off-Broadway, and transferred to continue at the Gerald W. Lynch Theater. ZOMBIE was subsequently adapted into a short film. His adaptation of "The Picture of Dorian Gray" along with the solo play "Dating Rituals of the American Male" have been performed in New York. Bill is also a notable and respected Alexander Technique teacher, with a roster of students that include Broadway actors, Metropolitan Opera singers, and renowned instrumentalists. He is a lecturer in acting at Yale University, and has taught at NYU Tisch and Juilliard.
Bill is a graduate of The London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.
Watch the second music video from the apocalyptic romantic-drama Poughkeepsie is for Lovers, entitled 'Love is Free'.
The apocalyptic romantic-drama Poughkeepsie is for Lovers has released it's first music video, available to watch here.
POUGHKEEPSIE IS FOR LOVERS will be available to rent and own on global digital HD internet, and satellite platforms on September 6, 2022 through Freestyle Digital Media.
LOVE, REPEAT, the romantic indie film, has announced that it will now be available across the world on various streaming platforms as well as a DVD. International sales have been handled by the film's distributor, Freestyle Digital Media, a division of Byron Allen's Entertainment Studios.
Bill Connington, star of the indie film LOVE, REPEAT (now streaming on Amazon Prime Video) is teaching an ongoing in-person acting class at the Riverside Initiative for the Alexander Technique (RIAT) on West 27th Street in Chelsea.
The producers of LOVE, REPEAT, a romantic family comedy directed by Shelagh Carter and written by Bill Connington, have just released a second music video for the film.
Excitement is in the air as The Winter Park Playhouse announces the six winning selections for the 4th annual Florida Fesival of New Musicals now scheduled for June 24 - 27, 2021. The Festival, which showcases new musical theatre works, is one of very few in the nation and certainly the only one of its kind in the Southeast region.
Love, in its many forms, can be beautiful, complicated, funny and everything in between. Bill Connington's new indie romantic comedy LOVE, REPEAT tells the uplifting, New York City-steeped story of James, who with the help of his 11-year-old son and quirky, close-knit circle of family and friends, sets out to win the heart of his ex-wife Barbara.
The producers of LOVE, REPEAT, a romantic family comedy directed by Shelagh Carter and written by Bill Connington, have just released a music video for the film.
LOVE, REPEAT, a romantic family comedy film, is available starting today to rent and own on Amazon, FandangoNOW and other North American digital HD internet, cable and satellite platforms and DVD through Freestyle Digital Media, the digital film distribution division of Byron Allen's Entertainment Studios.
LOVE, REPEAT, a romantic family comedy film, will be available to rent and own on Amazon, FandangoNOW and other North American digital HD internet, cable and satellite platforms and DVD on December 22, 2020 through Freestyle Digital Media, the digital film distribution division of Byron Allen's Entertainment Studios.
LOVE, REPEAT, a romantic family comedy film, will be available to rent and own on Amazon, FandangoNOW and other North American digital HD internet, cable and satellite platforms and DVD on December 22, 2020 through Freestyle Digital Media, the digital film distribution division of Byron Allen's Entertainment Studios.
The Winter Park Playhouse announced the six winning selections for the 4th annual Florida Festival of New Musicals now scheduled for June 24 - 27, 2021.
Burien Actors Theatre's 2020 season consists of five plays read over nine weeks. These five plays are the Artistic Director's choice, with only limited oversight. That means they will be different than what you can find anywhere else on social media or streaming.
Renowned actor-writer Bill Connington presented his first feature film Love, Repeat at the prestigious Dolby Screening Room in Midtown, Manhattan on December 16th, 2019. The film received its first private screening for an audience of industry professionals, cast and crew.
Play On Shakespeare today announces an expansive list of compelling actors and dynamic directors confirmed to participate in the Play on! Festival, presented in association with Classic Stage Company (CSC) and Oregon Shakespeare Festival (OSF). Play on! features 39 readings of new, work-in-progress translations of Shakespeare's plays into contemporary modern English by some of today's most exciting playwrights-May 29-June 30 at the Lynn F. Angelson Theater at CSC (136 E. 13th Street). In 2015, Oregon Shakespeare Festival launched an ambitious 39-play, three-year commissioning project, Play on!, tasking 36 playwrights-more than half of whom were women and playwrights of color, each paired with a dramaturg-to translate Shakespeare's canon in celebration of the enduring impact of the Bard's work. Supported by a generous grant from the Hitz Foundation and inspired by long-time patron Dave Hitz's passion for Shakespeare, the project was and continues to be led by Lue Morgan Douthit. For more information, visit playonfestival.org.
Renowned actor/director Bill Connington's film Charles and Mimsey Wainwright: International Spies scored a prestigious Silver Award in the Short Film category at the 2018 California Film Awards. The award dinner with top industry leaders was held in San Diego.
Renowned actor Bill Connington joined mezzo soprano Samantha Hankey and pianist Brian Zeger in 'Delacroix and Music' recently performed at the Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, for a one-night exclusive event, to a sold-out audience.
The 2018 McCammon Voice Competition judges have chosen the semi-finalists for the eighteenth biennial competition, to be held on March 16, 2018 at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. The finals will be held March 17, 2018 at Bass Performance Hall. This year's competitors are David Araujo, Amanda Blue, Nicolette Book, Ryan Bradford, Rachael Braustein, Kathleen Buccleugh, Chelsea Coyne, Danielle Davis, Peter Scott Drackley, Helen Huang, Hao Hu, Emily Michiko Jensen, Abigail Kempson, Chonghwa Kim, Abigail Levis, Brandon Morales, Elizabeth Moran, Langelihle Mngxati, Chong Yoon Noh, Brittany Nickell, Yulan Piao, Anthony Reed, Michael St. Peter and Andrew Wannigman.
Award winning actors Deirdre O'Connell (Circle Mirror Transformation) and Peter Francis James (Stuff Happens) appeared in a new 90 minute adaptation of William Shakespeare's Hamlet at The Alchemical Theatre Laboratory.
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