Wilson Raiser
www.wraiser.com
Email: rraiser@aol.com

After High School I went to Brigham Young University, and majored in anything but acting. However in the middle of it all, I was asked to do a play, and knew that was what I really wanted to do.

So, I left college and went to Phoenix where my mother had moved. I worked in Phoenix for a large Hardware Wholesale Warehouse, moving from stock boy to Assistant Credit Manager, while doing some community and professional theater, until 1978 when I auditioned for the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, and was accepted.

After the Academy I worked for Bank America Credit Card division starting as an authorizer, and becoming a collection supervisor and field collector (Repoman.) While doing this I acted in theater in Los Angeles.

Having had enough of the negatives of collecting, I became a Singing Waiter, and did TV and movies as they came up. I also worked in many cities around the country on weekends doing live 30 minute commercials for a business opportunity. I met my wife Alana at the restaurant and we were married in 1996, we are separated now.

Tired of waiting tables I took some classes in Typing, and computer programs so I could work as a temp. After finishing I was hired by the School as an administrative assistant full time. I was asked to learn some more programs and create a website.  Other non-profit agencies starting asking me to develop and create websites for them, and in 1999 I was asked to develop an Internet department and maintain the Information Systems for a Ford dealership owned by my brother Brian and his wife Peggy and her sister, in Orange, California.

With all this I still audition and do theater, TV and movies. And in October of 2002 I went to Sweden to make a commercial which you can see on my website www.wraiser.com, and the play Pinafore that I did from September of 2001 to May of 2002 won the "Best Musical of 2001" in Los Angeles along with us winning "Best Musical Ensemble" 

The play was asked to come to New York City in August 2003 to perform at the Fringe Festival....We were awarded best production.

I have commercials running in Europe for Tele2 a telecommunications company in which I have a recurring role as "Big Bill", I also did a music video for "MIDTOWN" - the song is Give it Up!

 I sold my home in West Hollywood and currently live in Long Beach, with a dog, 2 cats, 2 fish, and 2 parakeets.