TONY MIRATTI

Tony Miratti is a native of Santa Barbara. He attended the Pasadena Playhouse College of Theatre Arts receiving his education in fields as varied as make-up, diction, movement, mime, fencing, dialects, play analysis, and of course, acting.  Tony is a member of the final graduating class of the college. He works as an actor in theater, film and television.

In his New York stage debut, Tony won the New York OBIE Award for Best Actor and, over the last 25 years: Best  Supporting Actor Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award, Drama Logue and L.A. Weekly Awards, Santa Barbara Independent Awards, and is the recipient of the 2003 Arts Fund Individual Artist Award for his performances.  He is a lifetime member of both the Ensemble Studio Theater in New York and the Company of Angels in Los Angeles.

Regional stage credits include That Championship Season, Antigone, Noises Off; Lone Star; The Shortchanged Review, The Day the Whores Came Out to Play Tennis, American Buffalo, Inherit the Wind, and others, from the  greater Los Angeles area to Lincoln Center, New York Shakespeare Festival and Joe Papp Productions.  His directing credits include a varied array from James McClure’s Laundry and Bourbon &  Lone Star to August Strindberg’s Miss Julie.  

Veteran television viewers will remember Tony on General   Hospital, The Rockford Files, The Incredible  Hulk, Rhoda, Cliffhangers, Emergency and others.

Local theatre-goers will remember Tony as Mark Twain in his one-man show, The Trouble Begins at Eight at the Victoria Theatre. Also, at the Center Stage, as ‘Pale’ in Burn This and Camping with Henry and Tom.  He was spotted in cameo roles, in SB Opera Productions of Die Fledermaus and The Barber of Seville at the Lobero Theatre, as well as several productions at the Garvan Theatre, including To Kill A Mockingbird. 

This is Tony’s third appearance at Speaking of Stories. He has read Casey At The Bat by Ernest Lawrence Thayer and Red Ryder Nails the Cleveland Street Kid from In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash by Jean Shepherd.

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