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 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 contribution 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. Finally, in an effort to be of service, I'm helping with an acting class at Phoenix House, a drug and alcohol rehabilitation center in Long Island City. This class is taking place under the auspices of the Arts Justice Division at Adler. I'll be taking a class at Adler myself this summer: "Awareness Without Judgment - Adler Technique Teacher Training."
About My Career
SELECTED THEATRE CREDITS
Iphigenia in Tauris
Orestes
American Thymele Theatre
Three Sisters
Nikolai Lvovich Tuzenbach
Columbia University
The Cherry Orchard
Leonid Andreivitch Gaev
Williams College
The Cherry Orchard
Director & Co-Producer
Under St. Mark's Theater
Measure for Measure
Lucio
Curtain Call
The Winter's Tale
Antigonus/Shepherd
Williams College
The Lobby (World Premiere)
Miles O'Riordan
The Dressing Room Theatre at Curtain Call
Waiting for Lefty
Director & Producer
The Institute for the Musical Arts
The Landstuhl Chronicles (World Premiere)
Sgt. Lee Harris
Kraine Theater
Escape from Happiness
Tom
Stella Adler Studio of Acting (postgrad job-in)
Between Riverside and Crazy
Lieutenant Caro
Stella Adler Studio of Acting (postgrad job-in)
The Obituary (World Premiere)
Richard
Nutley Little Theatre
Broken Glass
Stanton Case
Williams College
Gloria
Assistant Director
Stella Adler Studio of Acting
Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde
Sir Edward Clarke
Williams College
The Miracle Worker
Jimmy Sullivan
Cape Cod Theatre Company
A Streetcar Named Desire
Mitch
Williams College
Antigone (Modern Adaptation)
Ghost of Eteocles
Theater Dionysus
Move the Logo (World Premiere)
Playton
New York Theatre Festival
Halloween Prom Night (World Premiere)
Eric
AlphaNYC Theater Company
The Lark
Joan's Brother
Cape Cod Theatre Company
Contact me for information about my film, TV, improv, and sketch comedy experience.
News and Updates
My Little Corner of the World
'Til Death Do Us Party - NY Theatre Festival
June 25, 28, & 29 (Hudson Theatre - Midtown)
The boys have rented an Airbnb in Rhode Island for Baxter's bachelor party, and when they arrive they find a tree bearing mysterious fruit. Over the course of the play, they all encounter their deepest feelings, and an even deeper desire to talk about them! One part The Hangover and one part Freudian psychoanalysis, 'Til Death Do Us Party is a hilarious send-up of modern millennial problems - climbing the corporate ladder; figuring out when, where, and whom to marry; and finding the freedom to discuss exactly what's eating us up.
Tickets here! Catch us at the Hudson Theatre. This show is produced by Infinite Monkey Theatre Company.
Chimp Cocktail - A Sketch Show
May 21, July 13, & August 10 (The PIT - 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 two shows and plan to do the same for our third in May!
Tickets here - we perform monthly at The Peoples Improv Theater Loft. This show is also produced by Infinite Monkey.
"One way we can enliven the imagination is to push it toward the illogical. We're not scientists. We don't always have to make the logical, reasonable leap."