Bill is an award-winning theatre, film and TV director based in the UK.

His Olivier Award nominated production of Sister Act The Musical has had two West End seasons, UK & Ireland tours and productions in Australia, Germany and the Netherlands. It opens in the USA at The Ordway, St Paul, in December 2025.

Bill’s production of 101 Dalmatians The Musical opens in London at The Eventim Apollo in July 2025, following a UK & Ireland tour.

His production of Stephen Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd (Tooting Arts Club at Harrington’s Pie & Mash Shop) transferred to the West End and Barrow Street Theatre, NYC, where it won the 2017 Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Revival, the Off-Broadway Alliance Award for Best Musical Revival, Theatre Fan’s Choice Award for Best Off-Broadway Musical and was nominated for four 2017 Drama Desk Awards including Outstanding Director of a Musical and Outstanding Revival of a Musical.

He won the Off West End award for Outstanding Director of a Musical for his production of Dave Malloy’s Ghost Quartet, which opened in London at The Boulevard Theatre in December 2019.

Bill’s debut feature film, Pond Life (Open Palm Films), premiered at the Leeds International Film Festival and was released in the UK in April 2019. It was long listed for 6 British Independent Film Awards including Douglas Hickox Award for Debut Director and Best British Independent Film.

Other recent theatre directing includes: If/Then (Savoy Theatre); The Time Traveller’s Wife (West End); Assassins (Watermill/Nottingham Playhouse); Much Ado About Nothing (Storyhouse); Sweet Charity (Nottingham Playhouse); The Selfish Giant (West End/Northampton); Babette’s Feast (Print Room); Sleeping Beauty (Watermill); Omeros (Shakespeare’s Globe); Barbarians (Tooting Arts Club at Central St Martins); King Lear (Shakespeare’s Globe & US Tour); Hamlet (GlobetoGlobe World Tour).

Short films: Richard II (starring James Norton); Comedy of Errors; King Lear (as part of The Complete Walk, Shakespeare’s Globe).

Bill was an Education Consultant at Shakespeare’s Globe where his productions for Playing Shakespeare with Deutsche Bank form the basis of the Globe Education Shorter Shakespeare series, published by Hodder & Stoughton.

Bill trained as an actor and performed at the RSC, the West End, Royal Court, Shakespeare’s Globe and on film and TV. He started his directing career assisting Dominic Cooke and Anthony Neilson at the Royal Court.

Photograph of Joseph Marcell as King Lear by Ellie Kurttz