Anthony Caldarella

Anthony Caldarella is an award - winning film and stage director/screenwriter and actor. He was born in Sicily and raised in New York City from the age of 13. His first passion in the arts was music. In his early years, he was a guitarist and singer/songwriter. Several of his songs were recorded by various artists. As an actor, he trained with Lee Strasberg and Sanford Meisner. His film directorial debut was My Brother Jack, starring Marco Leonardi and Freddy Rodriguez. The film had its world premiere at the Hampton Film Festival and has won several awards including best Italian-American Film, best Actor, and best director, Naples Film Festival, The Maverick Film Award for best Director, The Method Festival, and four awards including best Director and best Italian-American Film, The- Brooklyn/Manhattan Film Festival. My Brother Jack was distributed by Castle Hill and released on ABC. His stage credits include A View from the Bridge, starring Burt Young (Best Director Award from Drama Logue and LA Weekly), Detective Story (Best Director Award from Drama Logue), the English classic A Taste of Honey, The Price by Arthur Miller at The Odyssey Theatre, the West Coast premiere of The Beauty Queen Of Leenane, Harold Pinter's The Lover and The Collection at The Hudson Theatre, which won the 2002 LA Weekly Best Director Award. Mr. Caldarella was the founder and served as Artistic Director of the Washington Market Playhouse, a non-profit theater group in New York City's Tribeca, where he directed such plays as The Hostage by Brendon Behan, Small Craft Warning by Tennessee Williams and The Time of Your Life by William Saroyan. Mr. Caldarella acting credits include the Los Angeles critically acclaimed production 'The Dodo Bird' at Theatre West, for which he won the LA Weekly Best Actor award and also The Drama Logue. Before moving to Los Angeles, Mr. Caldarella compiled an extensive list of off-Broadway stage credits, including Out Cry by Tennessee Williams, which he played the lead and co-produced with the participation of Mr. Williams. He also played the lead in the West Coast Premiere of Modigliani. His film credits include Blood Red with Giancarlo Gianini and Dennis Hopper, Friends and Enemies with Dean Stockwell and The Patriot with Leslie Neilsen. Mr. Caldarella is a director member of The Actors Studio.