Antonio Suarez

About Me

Antonio Suarez is a Professor at Marymount Manhattan College as well as an experienced Broadway, and TV actor. At 48 years old, Antonio teaches Acting I & II as well as special topics at Marymount. Antonio currently lives in Northern New Jersey with his wife and two kids.

Early Life

Growing up, Antonio lived in Brooklyn, New York. Antonio was not exposed to any theatre as a child. Not only was theatre not a big influence in his neighborhood, but and his parents were not involved in theatre. He didn't have any sort of interest until a friend introduced him to what its like to be a thespian. He wanted to get involved in theatre because he saw how inclusive it was and how much they treated each other like a family.

Education

Antonio attended a community college before he got is BFA at Marymount Manhattan College. In a phone interview, Antonio said that working at Marymount is very much a full circle experience being that he got his undergrad from MMC and now teachers there.

M.F.A., Institute for Advanced Theater Training/Moscow Art Theater at Harvard University
B.F.A., Marymount Manhattan College

Career

Theatre

Not only is Antonio a skilled Broadway actor but he is also a proud member of the Screen Actors Guild- American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, Actors Equity Association, and The Phoenix Theatre Company. In addition to acting, Antonio also directs shows at Marymount Manhattan College. At Marymount he has recently done Arthur Miller's A View From The Bridge and An Enemy of the People Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen.

Credits

Broadway in David Mamet’s American Buffalo, directed by Robert Falls, which starred John Leguizamo, Cedric the Entertainer, and Haley Joel Osment; and John Guare’s Chaucer in Rome, which starred Carrie Preston, Dick Latessa, and Polly Holiday.
Dogg’s Hamlet,
Cahoot’s Macbeth,
The Trial with The Pheonix Theater Company;
This One Girl’s Storywith The New York Musical Theater Festival
Points of Departure with INTAR
Richard III with The National Black Theater
Food Acts, directed by Barbara Bosch (Lions Theater)
The Hamlet Project (Mac Wellman)
Tresspass (The Producers Club II)
Fuente (Cherry Lane Alternative)
Waiting for Godot (Chashama)
Skin(Soho Rep.)
Mother (LaMama E.T.C.)
The King Stag (International Tour) directed by Andrei Serban and choreographed by Julie Taymor
The Night is a Child by Charles Randolph Wright (Milwaukee Rep.)
A Midsummer Nights’ Dream, Taming of the Shrew, The Tempest, Julius Ceasar (Commonwealth Shakespeare Company)
Havana is Waiting (Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park)
Spinning into Butter (St. Louis Rep.)
Idiots Karamazov (American Repertory Theater)
A Question of Mercy (Institute for Advanced Theater Training)

TV and Film

“Law & Order”
“The Good Wife”
“Rookie Blue”
“Person of Interest”
“One Life to Live”
“As the World Turns.”
On HBO he was seen in “Flight of the Conchords” and “Curb Your Enthusiasm.” On the USA network will be seen on “Royal Pains.” He has taught at Hunter College and City College in NYC as well as mask and acting workshops around the country. He also has assisted Fay Simpson at the NYU graduate program in Lucid Body movement work for the actor.