This summer, we celebrated Palm Beach Dramawork’s 20th anniversary by revisiting Bill Hayes’ feature story in WPB Magazine’s winter 2017 print edition. Three years later, Hayes has a lot more to say about the theatre industry, how Palm Beach Dramawork
got started, its impact in our community, and how the COVID-19 crisis, that has forced thousands of theaters all over the world to close, has reinforced his desire to reinvent the stage.
Bill Hayes knows a thing or two about conquering an industry. After working on the stage as an actor and on the corporate scene as an executive, he discovered at age 30 that he didn’t want to get to be 90 and wonder why he’d never started a theatre company. That realization came in 1991 when he moved to South Florida and caught the attention of his fellow actor, Sue Ellen Beryl, a woman he was dating at the time and who shared his love for the theatre. Their debut as owners of a small theater on the Palm Beach Atlantic University campus in summer 2000 solidified the start of their stage domination. [As published in West Palm Beach Magazine.] Read more>>