Will Ehren
- Actor
Will Ehren (b.Willem Ehrenfreund) was born and raised in New York City. After quickly developing a love for acting at a young age performing in a school musical at his Middle School where his dad was the drama teacher, he began working professionally in the theatre, starring as Patrick in the Radio City Christmas Spectacular
. He would then go on to study drama at famed LaGuardia High School for the Performing Arts and continued honing his craft at Rutgers Mason Gross School of the Arts where he recently earned BFA. He has since guest starred on Law and Order: SVU, FBI and Wu-Tang: An American Saga and has lead regional theater productions across the country.
Recently, as the focal point of many Independent works, the rising young actor is seen coming into his own, choosing more challenging projects across an apparent wide range of roles and formal styles. A stated champion of "singular and boundary pushing voices" , Ehren has quickly established himself as an unpredictable shapeshifter in the latest run of on screen appearances. Jumping from role to role starkly, often Ehren alters physical appearance and habit for the given character, immersing himself fully into the world of the film in camouflage singular to the given character. This approach of embodied performance is most evident in ongoing and frequent collaborations with the punkish underground filmmaker Vincent D'Alessandro. Birthing a fruitful chemistry when D'Alessandro, a film student, saw Ehren in a production in the acting department production at Mason Gross and cast then cast him to lead what became the Jersey natives thesis and sleeper-hit-indie short film: Dogfood. Seeing Ehren dawning a tattered buzz cut and oversized jeans, Dogfood "unflinchingly" depicts a fateful night in a young construction workers life, as he's violently made to come to terms with the dead-end nature of his life as a motel-dweller . With the decorated festival success of Dogfood, he would subsequently star in D'Alessandro's debut feature length: Bottom Feeders. With D'Alessandro quickly picking up thematically where the two left off, Bottom Feeders is a low-key depiction of the realities of unemployment in Americas working class. Shot during a college break, Ehren's (credited here for the first time as Willem Ehrenfreund), performance as the recently homeless and sex addicted "Dmitri," earned him Best Actor nominations at the Torino Cinefest in Italy as well as the Melbourne Underground Film Fest in Australia. The duos collaboration looks to be continuing with the upcoming mid length: "Cart Pushers" (2025), the film per the log line once again centers on Ehren : " a maladjusted cart pusher at a dying grocery store, has a brief yet confusing romance with an underage cashier during the final months of a suburban New Jersey summer." Another anticipated turn for the actor is Paige Levy's upcoming 2025 short "A Film about Fascism" which had its premiere as an official selection at the Nitehawk Shorts Fest (2025) in Brooklyn, New York. As of April 2025, Ehren is listed as both a founding and current member of "The One-One Project."A new experimental theatre company led by influential director and master meisner teacher Kevin Kittle, with a bold mission statement stating "The One-One Project explores the universally tethering experience of storytelling to provide a shared theater experience that is both singular and universal."