[vc_row full_width=”true” id=”home” background_color=”#000000″ el_class=”toprowclearfix”][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_empty_space height=”15px” el_class=”readmorehidden”][vc_column_text]If my face looks familiar to you either you know me from years on television or you’ve been leaving your drapes open at night. Okay, that’s an opening line.
For 20 years I have been working both in front and behind the cameras and with live audiences around the world. I‘ve hosted on dozens of National shows, acted in major movie pictures and television shows, and Years of doing the job as a stand up comedian has taught me what makes people laugh.
As a director I have been in charge of large budgets and major stars and have directed hundreds of hours of television Shows like Frasier, Everybody Loves Raymond and Gilmore Girls to name only a few.
I’ve recently tackled the big screen, writing the screenplay, producing and directing the motion picture Hoot.
How can I apply all the experience to your next project? Lets talk about your next event, your needs, your program, your attendees and your message.
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Wil has directed hundreds of hours of television and film. His debut feature film “Hoot” brings his Florida background and twenty years of comedy and directing to a Newbury award winning book by Carl Hiaasen. “Hoot” debuted on over 3000 screens and became a top ten box office draw it’s first two weeks of release. The film was inducted into the Museum of Modern Art’s collection in NYC and was recently named by the Smithsonian Museum one of the top five environmental films.
On the small screen, Shriner is proud to have won the Humanitas Award for an episode of NBC’s “Frasier” entitled ‘Something About Dr. Mary’ dealing sensitively with the issue of racism. Another of his numerous “Frasier” episodes, ‘The Proposal’, earned an Emmy Award for editing in 2002.
In addition to many episodes of “Frasier”, Shriner has directed episodes for the Emmy winner, “Everybody Loves Raymond”, CBS’s “Becker” and “Ladies Man”, ABC’s “My Wife and Kids”, “Norm”, “Married to the Kelly’s”, and “Two Guys and a Girl”, Fox’s “Luis” and “Raising Dad” and the “Gilmore Girls” for the WB.
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Wil began his career as a stand up comedian in Los Angeles at the two most famous proving grounds in America, the Improvisation and the Comedy Store. There he met David Letterman, who took him on to write and perform on his morning talk show. After dozens of appearances with Dave, Jay Leno and legend Johnny Carson, Wil was tapped to host his own national talk show, the Wil Shriner show in 1987. 200 shows later and after three emmy nominations the show ended but Wil continues to do his stand up comedy and to work as a celebrity host and MC at events around the world.
Wil has made over 50 appearances with David Letterman, Jay Leno, Bill Maher and Johnny Carson.
He has appeared at dozens of casinos in Las Vegas, Lake Tahoe, Atlantic City and Reno with: Joan Rivers, Jerry Seinfeld, John Denver, Loretta Lynn, Tom Jones, The Gatlins, Neil Sedaka, Tony Bennett and Jay Leno.
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His humor and experience make him the perfect host for a broad range of events and clientele. He enjoys the challenge of a new client because he loves to immerse himself into a new organization and find the fun in what they do everyday.
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Wil’s first acting job was a diaper commercial at age one and he hopes to end with one at age 90.
After a long break for something called school, he returned to acting after being spotted on the Late Night with David Letterman show. He was cast opposite Joan Allen in the Academy Award nominated film “Peggy Sue Got Married,” directed by Francis Ford Coppola.
He has numerous films on his resume and says he has been honored to work with such great actors as Kathleen Turner, JIm Carey, Nicholas Cages, Helen Hunt, Ned Beaty, Roscoe Lee Brown, Charles Durning, Catherine Hicks, Cynthia Rothrock, Chuck Norris, Judy Tenuta, Michael Lerner, Andrew Stevens and Maureen O’Sullivan
After acting for a prestigious group of directors including John Landis, Steven Spielberg, Kevin Reynolds, Aaron Norris and Francis Coppola, he switched gears and now works both in front and behind the camera.
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California office
WS Productions Inc
(818) 884-8900
email wshriner@gmail.com
Florida office
South Ocean Entertainment
1314 East Las Olas Blvd. #39
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33301
(954) 247-1314
Email wilshriner@mac.com
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Corporate and Comedy Bookings
The Gersh Agency
9465 Wilshire Blvd., 6th Floor, Beverly Hills, CA 90212
tel: 310-205-5834 | fax: 310-274-1753
Agent Rick Greenstein
RGreenstein.asst@gersh.com
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Speaking engagements
Premiere Speakers Bureau
109 International Drive, Ste 300
Franklin, TN. 37067
(615) 261-4000
website http://premierespeakers.com/about
Publicity Info
Bob Cosgrove
email turboprop53@earthlink.net
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