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Frank Pagliaro: Actor, Director, Playwright, Producer

Let's make the thing!

Thanks for visiting my website. Here you'll find information about my background, skill sets, and recent/upcoming projects. My passion is classical/early modern theatre - I'd be happy to alternate between Shakespeare and Chekhov for the rest of my life - but I also enjoy working on new plays or in front of a camera.

 

Please reach out if you have a project in mind...you can check out my Actors Access profile here and my Backstage profile here.

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About Me

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."

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Horrible Bosses - Bobby
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About My Career

SELECTED THEATRE CREDITS

Iphigenia in Tauris

Orestes

American Thymele Theatre - New York

Three Sisters

Nikolai Lvovich Tuzenbach

Columbia University - New York

The Cherry Orchard

Leonid Andreivitch Gaev

Williams College - Massachusetts

The Cherry Orchard

Director & Co-Producer

Under St. Mark's Theater - New York

Measure for Measure

Lucio

Curtain Call - Connecticut

The Winter's Tale

Antigonus/Shepherd

Williams College - Massachusetts

The Lobby (World Premiere)

Miles O'Riordan

The Dressing Room Theatre at Curtain Call - Connecticut

Waiting for Lefty

Director & Producer

The Institute for the Musical Arts - Massachusetts

The Landstuhl Chronicles (World Premiere)

Sgt. Lee Harris

Kraine Theater - New York

Escape from Happiness

Tom

Stella Adler Studio of Acting (postgrad job-in) - New York

Between Riverside and Crazy

Lieutenant Caro

Stella Adler Studio of Acting (postgrad job-in) - New York

The Obituary (World Premiere)

Richard

Nutley Little Theatre - New Jersey

Broken Glass

Stanton Case

Williams College - Massachusetts

Gloria

Assistant Director

Stella Adler Studio of Acting - New York

Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde

Sir Edward Clarke

Williams College - Massachusetts

The Miracle Worker

Jimmy Sullivan

Cape Cod Theatre Co. - Massachusetts

A Streetcar Named Desire

Mitch

Williams College - Massachusetts

Antigone (Modern Adaptation)

Ghost of Eteocles

Theater Dionysus - New York

Move the Logo (World Premiere)

Playton

New York Theater Festival - New York

Halloween Prom Night (World Premiere)

Eric

AlphaNYC Theater Co. - New York

'Til Death Do Us Party

Charlie / Co-Producer

Infinite Monkey Theatre Co. - New York

Contact me for information about my film, TV, improv, and sketch comedy experience.

News and Updates

My Little Corner of the World

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Chimp Cocktail - A Sketch Show

Aug 10 @ 9pm; Sept 20, Oct 18, Nov 15, & Dec 13 @ 7pm (The PIT Loft - Chelsea)

Chimp Cocktail brings together the most brilliant sketch comedy minds of the post-World War II, pre-World War III generation. These courageous morons have joined forces to come up with one full hour of outrageous giggles and guffaws. Whether you’ve been experiencing fever dreams all spring or would like to experience one for the very first time, Chimp Cocktail will be an absurd response to our absurd times. We've sold out our first three shows and plan to do the same for our fourth in July.

Tickets here - we perform monthly at The Peoples Improv Theater Loft (154 W 29 St), and we look forward to headlining the The PIT's October SketchFest! This show is produced by Infinite Monkey Theatre Company.

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Bread of Life - A New Gospel in Two Acts

Spring 2025 (Fort Washington Collegiate Church - Washington Heights)

In the winter of 2015, while teaching history, philosophy, and theology at a Catholic boarding school, I started to ask myself a question: given the universalist message of Christianity, for whom does Jesus have nothing to offer? For whom might he not be a redeemer, but actually a destroyer? From this question flowed more questions: what role does faith play in family life? What roots us in a land or a people? And how do we prioritize our public and domestic obligations?

Bread of Life was born from these queries, telling the story of St. Peter's family and what they do when the future first pope decides to follow that deadbeat from Nazareth. The play will be produced by the UP Theater Company this spring at the Fort Washington Collegiate Church on 181st Street, where we'll enjoy a three-week run. Ticket link to come!

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"As actors, you must realize that what you see is a miracle simply because it exists."

- STELLA ADLER

Contact Me

(774) 212-2478

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