Hey, I’m Wiley. I’m a bicoastal actor, dancer, singer, and musician. I’m Armenian, Assyrian, and German.
I was born and raised in Santa Cruz, CA and got my acting training at UCLA’s School of Theatre, Film and Television. I grew up steeped in various styles of dance and playing music from a young age. I spent most of the 2010’s in San Francisco, lived in Buenos Aires in 2019, and have been bicoastal for the last few years.
I have a penchant for new plays, physical and devised work, re-envisioned classics, and I get excited about reimagining what the intersection of text, movement, and music can look like.
Recently I played Assef in the first Broadway national tour of The Kite Runner, closing out at the John F. Kennedy Center. It was an honor to tell that story across the country alongside an entirely SWANA cast of actors. Last year I appeared in The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time at SF Playhouse, played Sally Bowles in Pompeii, a Fosse immersive by Detour Productions, and worked with Berkeley Rep on The Reservoir, directed by Mike Donahue.
Most recently I closed a new play with the Latino Theatre Co at LATC. I love a world premiere. It was so good to be working in LA again after many many years. And Next up I’m working with Target Margin in Brooklyn, devising a piece called We’ll Jump off That Bridge When We Get There for their Nonsense Lab.
When I’m not performing, I love getting into nature wherever I am, and traveling the world domestically and abroad.