William Mesnik

Besides being an actor, William Mesnik is also an accomplished musician, playwright, and instructor at both The American Musical and Dramatic Academy, The Acting Corps in Los Angeles. His drama about folk singers during the blacklist, Three Songs, garnered Critic's Choice in the LA Times, an LA Weekly nomination for Best Ensemble, several regional productions, and a film option. Bill's theatrical resume encompasses Broadway (La Bete, Oh! Calcutta!), Off-Broadway (Modigliani, A Weekend Near Madison, The Good Times Are Killing Me, The Rimers of Eldritch, among others), such major regional venues as Yale Rep, The Old Globe, McCarter Theatre, The Kennedy Center, and Actors Theater of Louisville, and a European-America collaborative productions of Shakespeare's King Lear and Chekhov's Ivanov. L.A. stage appearances: several at the nationally renowned classical repertory theater, A Noise Within, most notably as Holofernes in Love's Labours Lost for which he received an Ovation nomination and The School for Scandal (DramaLogue Award). Bill is a graduate of the Yale School of Drama.