Will Dao

AEA Member
Will Dao

(he/him/his)

Nhan, Cowboy, Little Man, Second Grocer, White Boy in Poor Yella Rednecks*

(*originally scheduled for 2020)

In four seasons at OSF: Rocket Wu and Ensemble in Snow in Midsummer; Sam, Juliet in Shakespeare in Love; Peter Simple in The Merry Wives of WindsorAsian Guy, American Guy, Nhan, Khue in Vietgone; Cleomenes in The Winter’s Tale; Demetrius in Antony and Cleopatra; Understudy/performed: Master Yuan, Jiang in Secret Love in Peach Blossom Land

Other theatres: New York: Brother Wellington Hung/Chet in And the Earth Moved (NYMF); Advisor/Lead Player in The Remarkable Journey of Prince Jen (Midtown International Theater Festival). Regional: Asian Guy, American Guy, Nhan, Khue in Vietgone (Seattle Repertory Theatre);Poire in Harry Thaw Hates Everybody (Shotgun Players); Jian Wan in The Crazed (Central Works Theater Company); Ba in Where the Mountain Meets the Moon (Bay Area Children’s Theater); Aidan in The Hundred Flowers Project (Crowded Fire Theater, Playwrights Foundation); Gil in Thunder Above, Deeps Below (Bindlestiff Studio); Nasser in Language Rooms (Golden Thread Productions, AATC, Latino Theater Company); Pick in Philip Kan Gotanda’s #5 Angry Red Drum (AATC). 

Training: BA, Theater and East Asian Studies, Oberlin College.