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Ray Wills

Ray Wills
Contact Info
[email protected]
316-942-4291, ext. 2196

As a professional actor for over 30 years, Ray has worked extensively on stage and screen.  On Broadway,  he was a member of original casts of The Producers, Wonderful Town, Big, and Anna Karenina, and performed with the New York Philharmonic at Lincoln Center in Candide.  Numerous Off-Broadway credits include All in the Timing, Stephen Sondheim’s Wise Guys, A Class Act, and The Rothschilds.  Television credits include Law and Order, Law and Order Criminal Intent, Law and Order SVU, Ugly Betty, The Protector, 90210, and a recurring role on The Guiding Light.  On film, Ray has been seen in Nixon, The Producers, Pootie Tang, and several documentaries.  He has also performed at many of America’s most distinguished regional theatres.  In Wichita, he has trod the boards of Music Theatre of Wichita, The Forum Theatre, Crown-Uptown Dinner Theatre, and Wichita Community Theatre.  As an educator, Ray has been an adjunct professor at Kean University in New Jersey and Butler Community College in Kansas.  In the fall of 2013, Ray will be teaching Advanced Acting and Intro to Theatre at Newman University as well as directing a play.  A native of Wichita, Ray received his B.A. in Speech Communications and Theatre at Wichita State University, and he holds an M.F.A. in Acting from Brandeis University in Massachusetts.  He is also a member of Actor’s Equity Association and SAG-AFTRA.