William Mittler

William Mittler was educated at Fullerton College and UCLA where he was awarded his BA in 2002 and his MFA in 2004. He is an adjunct theatre professor here at Fullerton College as Santa Ana College, Orange Coast College and several other colleges in LA and Orange County.

As a founding member of Stages Theatre Company in Orange County he has had over 30 of his original works produced including: Snow Angels, Witches Roommates and Lovers, So Alone, A World in Love, Gratuitous, Ticklepants, Decadence, Paradise, Forever, The Demon, and Mother's Daughter, and One.

He recently had his play Erabus and the fall of sparrows staged at the Hollywood Fringe Festival in 2025 and His adaptation of Gorky's The Lower Depths was staged in December 2025, which included original songs written for the show by the playwright.

He was awarded a grant from California Council for the Humanities in 2006 for his production of Tales from the Canyons, The Olinda Story, at the Curtis Theatre in Brea.(Restaged in 2017). His Play One was grant funded and staged in 2018 and he had a staged reading of his play Art & War in 2020, the weekend before the lockdown. Sadly the pandemic, besides taking his father's life, also ended production of that play. His last, of three adaptations, of Frankenstein, had a staged reading in NYC by the End Times Theatre Company but the Pandemic also ended the planned Off Broadway production.

Other awards include Anita and Everette Farnsworth Scholarship, Fullerton College, 1993 Best Ensemble, Ticklepants, "OC Weekly", 1998 Playwright of the year, "OC Weekly", 2001 Best Director, "OC Register", 2001 Best Play, So Alone, "OC Register", 2001 James Pendleton Foundation Award, UCLA, 2003 and the Marianne Murphy Award, UCLA, 2003.

Besides being an award winning playwright and director, William is a light designer, stage carpenter, scenic painter, set designer, and award winning actor. His favorite roles include various shows with flash theatre LA, Claudius in Hamlet, and multiple roles with the Maverick theatre.