The Frogs

E.T. Wilford is a director and lighting designer with extensive experience across the Delmarva region. He has directed over 25 plays and musicals for a wide range of production companies, including: Company; Pan & Wendy; Assassins; Kiss of the Spider Woman; Sweeney Todd; Dog Sees God (Underground Actors); Leaving Iowa; Merrily We Roll Along; The Rocky Horror Show (Tred Avon Players); Let The Right One In; Jungle Book; Red Riding Hood; The Little Mermaid; Hedwig and the Angry Inch; The Yellow Boat; Torch Song Trilogy (Groove Theatre Company); George Orwell’s 1984; Into the Woods; Peter and the Star Catcher; Revenge of the Space Pandas; and The Elephant Man, among others. His work spans professional, community, and educational theatre settings.

Wilford founded the student-led theatre group, Underground Actors, in Easton at the age of 16, returning to it each summer as a director. In 2018, he founded Groove Theatre Company in Cambridge, MD, where he served as the organization’s founding Executive Director. He later served on the Board of Directors for Tred Avon Players for five years following his graduation from college and has remained actively involved with theatres throughout the Eastern Shore.

In addition to directing, Wilford frequently serves as lighting director for his own productions and those of other companies. He has also toured children’s theatre productions to elementary schools in Northern Virginia, teaching acting and improvisation to young performers. He holds a BFA in Theatre for Youth from Shenandoah Conservatory.