The Famous Brothers will be a prominent part of this benefit at the Up Comedy Club.
I'm playing the Ghost, the Player King and the Gravedigger in Oak Park Festival Theater's production of HAMLET (http://oakparkfestival.com/welcome/hamlet/), running Thursdays-Sundays til July 19th. Here's some kind reviews:
The sharp performances and strong direction by Lavina Jadwani make this a unique and powerful experience. It is everything a good Hamlet should be: beautiful and haunting, yet painfully tragic...Will Clinger...adeptly plays three roles — Hamlet’s dead father, whose ghostly presence appears periodically, the leading player of the itinerant acting troupe, and a philosophical grave-digger. - Doug Deuchler, OAKPARK.COM This is in fact, an excellently realized vision of Shakespeare’s masterpiece. [The Ghost is] a white suit-wearing, shotgun brandishing Will Clinger...Clinger is also very amusing as both the Player King and the Gravedigger. - Rory Leahy, CENTERSTAGE Shakespeare’s story of vengeance, ghosts and existential angst is solid and accessible...Clinger is endlessly gifted when it comes to portraying goofiness. His comic range is vast and as the gravedigger, he’s excellent. - Catey Sullivan, OAK LEAVES, CHICAGO SUN TIMES Director Lavina Jadhwani moves Shakespeare’s tragedy to 1920s Chicago, a change that allows the men to dress and act like gangsters (Jack Hickey’s King Claudius swaggers like a goodfella) without harming the drama a bit. It helps that her cast is adept at delivering their “lines trippingly on the tongue,” as Hamlet would have it, bringing out Shakespeare’s poetry without indulging in either hammy overacting or annoying fake naturalism. - Jack Helbig, CHICAGO READER [McKeogh’s] Hamlet will emerge as one of the finest seen on stage in Chicago...The dedicated cast included nice work from Jack Hickey (Claudius), Michael Joseph Mitchell (Polonius) and Will Clinger. - Tom Williams, CHICAGO CRITIC If you're tapping your feet impatiently awaiting the return of HBO's "Boardwalk Empire," Oak Park Festival Theatre's current production of "Hamlet" may provide some relief. Director Lavina Jadhwani's staging, adapted by Jadhwani and Doug Finlayson, sets the action in the 1920s-era Hotel Denmark...It's an eminently workable choice...In the title role, Michael McKeogh brings febrile energy and histrionic wit. - Kerry Reid, CHICAGO TRIBUNE 
 THE CALVIN LEWIS BOBBY MAYFAIR SHOW[S] on the big screen at the Naperville Independent Film Festival. At the Chicago International Reel Shorts Festival, our film received an Audience Award.
 A short film I wrote and co-directed with Steve Avery called THE
CALVIN LEWIS BOBBY MAYFAIR SHOW[S] is being screened at THE NAPERVILLE INDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVAL (http://naperfilmfest.org/) on Wednesday, September 18th at 9:25 PM Classic Cinema Theater #6, 1227 E. Ogden Ave. in Naperville  A short film I wrote and co-directed with Steve Avery called THE
CALVIN LEWIS BOBBY MAYFAIR SHOW[S] is being screened at THE CHICAGO INTERNATIONAL REEL SHORTS FESTIVAL (http://projectchicago.com/) on Saturday, September 14th at 10 PM Miska's Lounge & Bar, 3204 N. Leavitt in Chicago "Every comic turn in this complicated tale is executed with grace and verve. Will Clinger (as Malvolio) and Scot West (as Feste) in particular turn in the kind of subtle, intelligent performances that make even Shakespeare's more forced comic scenes laugh-out-loud funny." - The Reader  I'll be playing Malvolio in Oak Park Festival Theater's production of TWELFTH NIGHT, opening July 20th and running through August 24th; shows are Thursday - Saturday at 8 PM, Sunday at 7.
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