Couple Begins 40th Year As Working Actors

William and Sue Wills, parents of Broadway performer Jennifer Hope Wills (Phantom of the Opera, Wonderful Town, Woman in White, Beauty and the Beast) proudly announce two milestones: their personal achievement of 40 years as working actors and their recent project - Presidents and Their First Ladies - starting its third decade of bringing American Presidents and their wives to life before audiences all over the United States.

The Wills, who like to refer to themselves as "actorepenours" because they have always generated their own opportunities for work, began their long-lasting career in the early 1978 when they created Parker Productions, Inc. in their then home town of Ocean City, MD. William was 30 years old and manager of a 250 room Sheraton hotel, but they risked everything they owned, including William resigning from that well-paying job, and promptly lost everything and were in thousands of dollars of debt as the first year ended. But they persevered and their theater company lasted 20 seasons in Ocean City presenting 31 original musicals for families, which the couple wrote, along with many productions of typical Broadway summer theatre fare. Then as William and Sue like to say, "The good Lord blessed us with another wonderful idea - Presidents and Their First Ladies, dramatically speaking.

PFL, dramatically speaking is the nation's premiere company presenting live presentations on the life stories of 34 American Presidents and Their First Ladies. Over the past 21 years, veteran performers William and Sue Wills, have not only researched and written the 34 dramatic portrayals, but also have given over 4,700 performances in 35 states, including over 30 at Presidential Sites. Concentrating on the personal relationships of the Presidential couples, they make the names in history books come to life.

The couple, along with their son Daniel, also created a 501 c3 nonprofit,-Presidents Project, Inc. - which has donated more than $6,000 over the past three years to organizations such as Wounded Warrior Project (national), Wounded Warriors of South Florida, The Fisher House of West Palm Beach, FL, and Homes for Our Troops.