Will is a professional actor, director, playwright, and performance artist with a broad range of professional experience from New York's Off-Off Broadway theatre to regional theatre and films. He was a founding member of New York's Performance Group, directed by Richard Schechner, and he was awarded a Student Fulbright to study in Poland with Jerzy Grotowski in 1970. Will Shephard has over thirty years' experience teaching acting, directing and playwriting in both the U.S. and abroad. He has taught acting workshops in China, Malaysia, Singapore, Belarus, Turkey, and Israel. In 1998-99 he received a Senior Lecturer Fulbright grant to teach and direct in India. He received his Ph.D. in Theatre from Florida State University's School of Theatre.