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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, 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).

Goodwill Hunting - Chuckie
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Horrible Bosses - Bobby
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Love's Labour's Lost - Berowne
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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

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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.

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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!

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

- STELLA ADLER

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