William is a Tony® Award winning producer who organized TheatreDreams with Larry Wilker in 2001. TheatreDreams has become an internationally regarded theater producer, owner and operator. Since 2001, the company has co-produced four Broadway and several road productions; acquired, restored, and operated The Chicago Theatre; and managed the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles. By 2007, when The Chicago Theatre was sold to Madison Square Garden (Cablevision), the venue had become one of the world's outstanding presenters of popular entertainment programming.

Becker left his law practice and his position as the Kennedy Center General Counsel to organize and operate TheatreDreams with Wilker. Becker had provided legal counsel to the Kennedy Center since 1969, before initial construction was completed. During his tenure, he oversaw performance contracting and, beginning in 1994, the transfer of building operations and a $225 million construction program from the National Park Service to the Kennedy Center. He guided the project to expand the Kennedy Center parking garage with a $32 million Industrial Revenue Bond issuance, and was instrumental in the planning for a $400 million expansion of the Kennedy Center to include a 17-acre public plaza to the east of the Kennedy Center site, utilizing air rights over the existing highway system.

Becker has negotiated thousands of theater production, television, licensing, recording, and other performing arts contracts since 1969, including presentation, stage, television, record, movie, and other production and presentation arrangements for Leonard Bernstein's Mass, Captain Brassbounds Conversion, First Monday in October, Seinfeld, American Idol, ESPY Awards, Pippin, Annie, Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton in Private Lives, Bolshoi Opera, CNN Debates, Bolshoi Ballet, Les Miserables, and the Kennedy Center Honors.

Becker has vast experience in corporate finance, copyright and intellectual property matters, computer and Internet issues, real estate development and labor relations. His legal work also included commercial litigation, insurance, labor relations and other employment matters, tort litigation, federal ethics statutes and regulations, legislative matters, construction contracting, crude oil pipeline and trucking regulation, and federal agency status issues.

He also represented Kennedy Center Productions, Inc., a funding entity for the Kennedy Center, and represented Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts in its early years. For many years, he was General Counsel and on the Board of Directors of the Greater Washington Board of Trade, Washington DC and The Voice Foundation. Becker has written and participated in symposia on performing arts related subjects. For four years, he was an Instructor teaching part of a course on Labor Relations in the Arts in the Graduate Program in Arts Administration at Teachers College, Columbia University, New York City.

Becker is a graduate of the Harvard Law School (LLB) and the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration (MBA). Until leaving his law practice, he was admitted to the bars of the District of Columbia, Maryland, Massachusetts, and Supreme Court.

Becker lives outside of Park City, UT, with his wife, Joan Alper, where his extracurricular activities include hiking, flyfishing, and downhill and backcountry skiing.