www.frankanthonypolito.com

The official website of
FRANK ANTHONY POLITO

Known as "franQ" to all his friends, FRANK ANTHONY POLITO is a New York actor and emerging playwright who has worked with Academy AwardŽ Winners, Meryl Streep, Renee Zellweger, and William Hurt (ONE TRUE THING), George Clooney & Nicole Kidman (THE PEACEMAKER), and Michael J. Fox (SPIN CITY). He has also appeared on the ABC "soap" One Life to Live.

Frank has performed in numerous New York City theatre productions, and regionally in Washington DC. He appeared in The Source Theater Company's award-winning corpus christi and in The Shakespeare Theatre's outdoor production of The Two Gentlemen of Verona at Carter Baron.

He is a 2006 graduate of the MFA Dramatic Writing program at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA, where he studied under Milan Stitt, (The Runner Stumbles).

NEWS FLASH!!

Another Day on Willow St has been selected for inclusion in the Dayton Playhouse's "Future Fest" New Play Festival in July 2007 and will premiere at the New York International Fringe Festival in August.

For more info visit: http://www.anotherdayonwillowst.com
His first play, JOHN R, was produced in New York (Muse of Fire Productions, 2001) and starred Tony award-nominee John Tartaglia (Avenue Q.) Other full-lengths include: Another Day on Willow St (CMU Winter New Play Festival, 2006), The Secret Anniversary (reading: CMU, 2005) and Band Fags! (staged reading: Bailiwick Repertory Theatre, Chicago, 2004). His one-act plays include: Blue Tuesday (staged readings: Playwrights/Actors Contemporary Theatre, NYC, 2005 and Mill Mountain Theatre, Roanoke, VA, 2005) and Menage a Troy (staged reading: CMU Playground, Fall 2005).

Frank has also written and performed the one-man show, infected (CMU Playground, Spring 2005). His teleplay, Blind Faith, was a finalist for the CMU/Alfred P. Sloan teleplay competition in 2004.

Frank is the two-time recipient of a Schubert Fellowship and a member of Actors Equity Association, Screen Actors Guild and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists. He is currently adapting Band Fags! into a novel.

PLAY SYNOPSES
The Secret Anniversary
(full-length, 3M, 1F)
Another Day on Willow St
(full-length, 3M, 1F)

DIALOGUE SAMPLES
The Secret Anniversary
Another Day on Willow St

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