William Nedved

William Nedved (he/him) is a writer and writing teacher living in Portland. He co-founded The Gift Theatre Company of Chicago. Recent collaborations include a theater project with Playtone Productions; Condolences, devised with the Creative Aging Playmakers Ensemble at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts; the musical Wanderlust at the 2024 Chicago Musical Theatre Festival at Steppenwolf Theatre; the audio play The Ravages: A Love Story for Theatre of NOTE; Medusa: The Musical with Deaf West Theatre at the Getty Villa; and the opera The Passion of McQueen at Boston Court Pasadena. He has taught playwriting and screenwriting at Columbia College/ASU, AMDA, The Wallis, and the LGBT Center of Los Angeles. He studied dramatic writing at the University of Iowa, the University of New South Wales, and the University of Southern California.