Bill Dawes is an American actor and stand-up comic. He graduated cum laude with an aerospace engineering degree from Princeton University and holds an MFA In acting from NYU. While living in New York, Bill starred in 3 Broadway plays and over a dozen Off-Broadway plays as well as appearing in over 50 films and television shows. As a comic, he has toured nationally as well as internationally with the USO and considers the Hollywood Laugh Factory his home club. He is best known for "Mo," "Alaska Daily," "City on a Hill," "Damages," "Before the Sun Explodes," "Law and Order: Special Victims Unit," and "Encounter" with Riz Ahmed. Bill tours nationally and internationally as a headlining comic and considers the Laugh Factory his home club.