Teachers & Writers Collaborative

Frank Ingrasciotta

Frank Ingrasciotta (actor, playwright, stage director, teaching artist) uses theories of multiple intelligences to teach theater arts and creative writing to students of all ages across the curriculum. As an educator, Frank has conducted workshops, staff developments, and residences for numerous schools and organizations and has taught his programs with gifted, special education, visually-impaired, and at-risk youth.

Frank is the 2006 recipient of the Arts Award for outstanding Performing Artist and Arts Educator for Westchester County. The award is the Westchester Arts Council’s most prestigious, recognizing individuals and organizations whose vision, commitment, and leadership enrich Westchester, its communities and its citizens. Past honorees include Nelson Rockefeller, Ruby Dee, Ossie Davis, and Renata Scotto

Through Empire State, Annenberg, Project Arts, and Project Read programs, Frank has conducted residencies in the areas of social studies, science, creative writing, poetry, playwriting, and scriptwriting. In addition, he conducts staff development workshops, empowering teachers with creative skills for learning. For Mt. Sinai Hospital’s Adolescent Health Center, he used theater as a tool to teach health issues to pre-adolescents and adolescents and young adults. Frank has also directed and consulted for many high school theater productions.

As an actor, he has appeared in numerous stage productions regionally and Off-Broadway and has had recurring television roles on The Equalizer, The Guiding Light, and One Life To Live. Frank has directed many stage musicals and concerts and has also written, directed and produced the NY Cable Follies, a musical satire of the year’s events in the cable industry, performed for TV network executives from Time-Warner, Disney Channel, and HBO.

He is also the writer and performer of his most recent work entitled Blood Type: RAGU, a one-man play based on his experiences growing up first-generation Italian-American in which he portrays more than characters. The production continues to enjoy record-breaking runs regionally and in New York City. Frank also serves on the faculty at State University of New York (SUNY) Purchase, where he teaches acting. He is fluent in reading and writing Italian and holds a BA in theater arts-in-education from SUNY/Empire State College. For more information about Frank log on to his website at www.fingrasiotta.com