Will Kiley works alongside young people to imagine and shape our collective liberation through audacious storytelling. Will teaches high school theater in Pflugerville, Texas (the filming location of Friday Night Lights) and serves as the Education Director of Rocky Mountain Repertory Theatre with his wife Samantha in Grand Lake, Colorado.  

 

Will was awarded the 2019 Don and Elizabeth Doyle Special Recognition Award for his directing work in youth theatre by The American Alliance for Theatre and Education. He met Samantha during his five years living in Chicago and teaching theater at The National High School Institute "Cherubs" Program at Northwestern University. Will is a company member at Jackalope Theater, one of Chicago’s premiere producers of new plays. As an actor, Will has toured to military bases, performed for the United Nations in Nairobi, Kenya, acted in the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland, and appeared as an overzealous EMT on NBC's Chicago Fire. BFA: The University of Cincinnati (CCM) MFA: University of Texas at Austin.