William R. Duell’s first produced play, The Journey, was produced in 2009 at American Theatre of Actors in NYC by James Jennings, President and Artistic Director of ATA. The Journey was named a finalist for the Arts and Letters Prize in Drama. His plays have been produced and workshopped across the U.S.

Most recently, his full-length drama honor  premiered October 1-29 2023 and had a successful run at the black-box Jeffrey and Paula Gural Theatre in NYC, directed by Gerald vanHeerden and produced by vMHF Theatricals. Planet First had its first staged reading in April of this year at Main Street Theater in Houston, presented jointly by Wordsmyth Theater and "Gather Wood, Gather Words," a global multi-media project by Susan Ossman and the Anthropocene Research Kitchen at NYU Abu Dhabi.

Duell is the Artistic Director of very new New Views Theatre in Lexington, VA; a proud member of the Dramatists Guild of America and its former Houston Regional Representative; a professional member of PEN America; and a board member of Wordsmyth Theater Co., which promotes new works by playwrights from around the world. He is an advisory board member of Fade to Black, Houston's first and only national play festival to showcase new works by Black playwrights.