William Earl Hezlep is a published author. A published credit of William Earl Hezlep is How Come Christmas.
William Hezlep was born in Turtle Creek, Pennsylvania in 1936. At seventeen he left home for bigger waters and spent three years on a destroyer in the North Atlantic, med, Caribbean and Persian Gulf. Upon completion of his active Navy service he attended Westminster College in Pennsylvania to become a journalist. Forced to try out for a production of Hamlet he was bitten by the "theatre bug." After graduation he began acting on the stage and doing tv commercials in the Pittsburgh area. In 1963 he was awarded a Hilberry Theatre Fellowship at Wayne State University in Detroit. While there he was strongly influenced by Tyrone Guthrie and Leonard Leone. Bill was a member of the Hilberry Theatre Repertory Company for five years.
He has also been an actor at L.S.U., The Pittsburgh Playhouse, toured with a Pittsburgh children's theatre company and has done summer stock in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Illinois and Minnesota. As a member of the Screen Actors Guild he freelanced in industrial films and television. He is a member of The Dramatists Guild of America and has been included in Outstanding Educators of America, Who's Who in the Midwest, and Who's Who in Entertainment.
His full-length plays are Benedict Arnold, Winterkill, Buffalo Ridge, Runestone and Sorry Dad.
Bill has written numerous one-act plays six of which are included in American Plays of the Past and American Plays of the Present.
His childrens series of plays entitled The Travelers chronicles the adventures of a brother and sister with their strange Scottish Nanny. The series includes Nessie, Ghost Town, Cayman Duppy, Pharaoh's Dagger, Treasure of the Mayans, Tower of London, How Come Christmas?, Red Cloud's Revenge, Merlin's Cave, Shipwrecked, Kokopelli's Cave, Trouble In the Mountains, Bog Bodies, Bigfoot, Curse of the Tomb Raiders and Time Travelers. Several of his children's plays have won national awards.
William Hezlep is a retired professor emeritus of theatre from Southwest Minnesota State University.
Scripts and rights are available from:
Players Press
P. O. Box 1132
Studio City, CA 91614-0132
Telephone: 818-789-4980
E-mail:
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You may contact William Hezlep at
[email protected] or 507-532-3538
