An internationally published and produced playwright and book author and a respected director, teacher and actor, Will Osborne has enjoyed a career in professional theatre that spans five decades. His play Smoke & Mirrors, a comic murder mystery (co-authored with Anthony Herrera) has been produced in theaters throughout the United States, as well as in South Africa and Korea. In 2007, collaborating with Randy Courts, he provided book and lyrics for Magic Tree House: The Musical, a full-scale, Broadway-style family musical which traveled to 54 cities around the country.

Will's writing for musical theatre also includes The Wonderful O, an adaptation of the James Thurber novella (also with Randy Courts), produced Off-Broadway at the West Bank Café in New York and the Leonard Bernstein Institute in Nashville, plus 8 more adaptations of Magic Tree House adventures that have been performed nationwide.

Will has authored more than a dozen books for children and young adults, many co-written with his wife, Mary Pope Osborne, including the Magic Tree House Fact Tracker series, two retellings of Greek mythology, A Time to Dance for the My America series, and a picture book, Sleeping Bobby, with award-winning illustrator Giselle Potter. He has also created several highly acclaimed multi-media shows for the Morehead Planetarium in Chapel Hill, N.C., two of which featured William Shatner and the late Walter Cronkite. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Will is a member of the Dramatists Guild, the Writers Guild, SAG, AFTRA, Actors Equity – and currently vocalist and lead guitarist for the popular New England rock band Lucky Bucket.