Frank Pagliaro: Actor, Director, Playwright, Producer

Born in Massachusetts, I cut my teeth on the stage of the Harwich Junior Theatre, America's oldest children's company (it's now known as the Cape Cod Theatre Company). My mom enrolled me in HJT's Creative Movement class when I was five, and there I found my first, my truest, my most maddening passion. 

I continued my love affair with the theatre at Williams College, where I led the school's improv troupe and worked for the Theatre Department Scene Shop while majoring in English, History, and Jewish Studies. Upon my graduation cum laude, I received the Louise J. Ober '64 Theatre Award in Creativity for my outstanding contributions to the performing arts at Williams. I then moved to Brooklyn, enrolling in programs at UCB and the Stella Adler Studio of Acting. I graduated from Adler's evening conservatory in 2019, and during the COVID-19 pandemic, I trained at the Double Edge Theatre Company in Ashfield, Massachusetts. I moved uptown in 2022 and now live in Inwood.

Recently, I've been exploring directing, and was thrilled to helm a multilingual production of The Cherry Orchard that ran at the end of January in the East Village (read about it here, or listen to a podcast that featured us here). I've also joined a monthly sketch comedy team at The Peoples Improv Theater, and we've sold out every show. I'm having a play of mine produced by a fantastic uptown theatre company, and, in an effort to be of service, I'm volunteering my time with acting classes at drug and alcohol rehabilitation centers in Long Island City and East Harlem. These classes take place under the auspices of the Arts Justice Division at Adler. I'm taking a class at Adler myself this summer: "Awareness Without Judgment - Adler Technique Teacher Training."