
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.

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, the very northern tip of Manhattan.
Recently, I've also been exploring directing, play-writing, sketch comedy, and "alternative" theatrical education - I helmed a multilingual production of The Cherry Orchard in January, joined a sketch team in February, wrote a play for an uptown theatre company that will be produced in the spring, and am helping with acting classes at drug and alcohol rehab centers in Long Island City and East Harlem (these classes take place under the auspices of the Arts Justice Division at Adler).

About My Career
SELECTED THEATRE CREDITS - ACTING
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
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Nick Bottom
RiffRaffNYC - 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
'Til Death Do Us Party
Charlie
Infinite Monkey Theater Company - New York
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
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
SELECTED THEATRE CREDITS - DIRECTING
The Cherry Orchard (A Multilingual Adaptation)
Under St. Mark's Theater - NYC
Waiting for Lefty
The Institute for the Musical Arts - Massachusetts
Gloria
Stella Adler Studio of Acting - NYC (Assistant Director)
Contact me for information about my film, TV, improv, and sketch comedy experience.
News and Updates
My Little Corner of the World

Chimp Cocktail - A Sketch Show
February 22 @ 7:30pm (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 60 to 90 minutes of outrageous giggles and guffaws. Whether you’ve been experiencing fever dreams all year or would like to experience one for the very first time, Chimp Cocktail will be an absurd response to our absurd times.
I had a blast with my fellow Chimps when we headlined October SketchFest, and we recently won The People's Improv Theater award for Best New Sketch Group. Get tickets here - we perform monthly at The PITLoft (154 W 29 St). This show is produced by Infinite Monkey Theatre Company.

Bread of Life
March 26 - April 12 (Fort Washington Collegiate Church - Washington Heights)
Febronia is left to care for her teenaged son and ailing mother when her husband Simon leaves home to follow an itinerant preacher for Nazareth. This strange man's ministry leaves her life in shambles, raising questions about faith, family, and the tension between domestic discipline and radical revolution.
I started work on Bread of Life in 2015, while teaching philosophy, history, and Christian doctrine at a New England boarding school. I'm thrilled to be collaborating with the UP Theater Company all these years later!

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