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The Filmmakers' Workshop serves a specially curated group of film and TV writers each year. We focus on fresh, ambitious work and prepare writers for success in a competitive industry. Participants gather during the NYSAF Summer Season in the Hudson Valley, where they receive a table read of their script with professional actors, attend the readings of fellow writers, and receive one-on-one feedback from industry professionals. Six months later, a follow-up retreat allows for additional access to the NYSAF community and subsequent mentor support. 

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MENTEES
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PAUL BAIGUERRA | MENDACITY

After her car breaks down, a struggling single mother agrees to take part in an insurance fraud, but, when she tries to back out she discovers that she was the intended victim all along and must now contend with the malicious criminal she has let in the door.

 

Paul is an Australian writer/director who was raised in a regional coal mining town in a benevolent version of a Godfather movie (Italian Father, gambler, major employer in town, did favours, no crime…that he knows of…). An interest in theatre and photography lead to running an amateur youth theatre company, and realising film was his calling.

 

Instead, he went into directing commercials and became quite good at shifting widgets. Years passed and with a litany of well-honed excuses he craftily avoided writing anything.

 

This ended abruptly when he realized he was miserable. It was clear that he could either get serious about writing or suffer the consequences. He chose the former and happily rearranged his life around pursuing a writing career.

 

When not writing Paul is either volunteer firefighting, or trying to make the perfect bolognese.

 

He is represented by Jason Belitto at Citizen Skull Management.

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MAIA HENKIN | DEATH AND POULTRY IN MARION, KENTUCKY

​In rural Kentucky, a seventeen-year old girl is kidnapped by two religious fanatics and develops a friendship with the woman who tortures her. 

 

Maia Henkin is an LA-based genre filmmaker who is currently in the 2024 NBCU TV Writer's Program. She was a finalist for The Black List/WIF Feature Lab and a finalist for The Black List/WIF Episodic Lab. Other accolades include being a semi-finalist for The Sundance Episodic Lab, a semi-finalist for Austin Film Festival (out of 11,000 submissions, she was in the top 40 for dramatic pilot), and a semi-finalist for ISA's Launch Pad Pilot Competition, among others. As a director, her projects have twice premiered at the Oscar-Qualifying HollyShorts Film Festival and HBO's Catalyst Film Festival (where she was nominated for best pilot).  Before moving to LA, she earned her stripes as an Off-Broadway playwright in New York. Her work often explores themes of alienation, female trauma, and social justice in the genre space. She is repped by Untitled Entertainment.

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DESTINY MACON | TALK BLACK

A timid engineer develops a wild and vivacious split personality to help her speak up to the boy's club at work and prevent gentrification of the historically black neighborhood where she grew up.

 

Destiny Macon is screenwriter, director, and civil engineer who graduated from the University of South Carolina, the SC Film Commission’s Wide Angle Program, and UCLA’s screenwriting graduate program. In 2020, she launched Hush Girl Productions, LLC and won a ~$30,000 grant from the Indie Grants program to fund her short film, TALK BLACK, which is now streaming on HBO & Max. The screenplay for TALK BLACK (the feature) was a winner in ScreenCraft’s 2023 comedy competition and was awarded the Sloan Writing Fellowship Award through the Athena Film Festival. Her screenwriting how-to manual, Weird People Cool Concepts, is currently available as a paperback and a Kindle E-book on Amazon.com. Destiny is currently developing a comedy TV series partially based on the storyline of her short film, CREATOR'S CRISIS, that she will produce in Greenville, South Carolina.

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NIKITA MUNGARWADI | BADMAASH

A white-washed, second-generation Indian-American freshman seeks to reclaim her cultural identity by joining a competitive collegiate Bollywood dance team, where she navigates new friendships, campus rivalries, and imaginary conversations with Bollywood icon Shah Rukh Khan.

 

Nikita Mungarwadi hails from a snug bathtub in Detroit, Michigan, where she was unintentionally delivered by her grandmother after a miscommunication at the doctor’s office. This dramatic entrance into the world set the tone for her future in storytelling. A proud University of Michigan graduate and a first-place winner of the Hopwoods Awards, Nikita has honed her professional skills at UTA and Jon Chu’s Electric Somewhere. In 2021, she was selected for The Salon’s Mentorship Program and was subsequently a finalist in the 2023 Hillman Grad Mentorship Lab and 2024 Paramount Writers Mentorship Program. In 2024, she was selected as a writing mentee for the NYSAF Filmmakers' Workshop. Outside of her career, Nikita is passionate about Ballroom dance.

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IVAN ROME | HALLELUJAH NIGHT

After sneaking out for their first Halloween party, a pastor’s kid and his best friends must find a way to survive the craziest night of their lives.

 

A Columbus, Georgia native, IVAN ROME is a writer/director pursuing an MFA in film at Columbia University. Concentrating in screenwriting, Ivan is the recipient of Columbia's inaugural Bobby Kashif Cox Memorial Scholarship, an inaugural Diverso’s Black Writers in Focus Fellow, a Columbia Alumni Association Scholar, an MTV Joel Schumacher & Sophia Cranshaw Scholar for the 2023 Gotham EDU Film & Media Career Development Program, and just finished the MTV Entertainment Ambassador Program. Additionally, he has interned at Ryan Coogler’s Proximity Media, is a former Narrative Programming Fellow at The Gotham Film & Media Institute, and was selected for the SEEN Black Filmmakers Program sponsored by Meta and The Blackhouse Foundation. Ivan's films have screened at several Academy Award qualifying festivals, and his most recent film, TIKTOK CHALLENGED, is currently available on American Airlines flights. A storyteller passionate about writing Southern narratives, he explores the multiplicity of black culture through humor and heart.

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JIANNA MAARTEN SAADA | WINSLOW

1971. The war still rages in Vietnam despite Nixon promising to withdraw more troops, and halfway across the world a small town in South Dakota dealing with the fallout of the war throws a welcome home parade for recently returned vet Bobby Peterson. But what's come home is not the same Bobby Peterson who left and this small town will never be the same. 

 

Southern California native, writer|director Maarten Saada earned both degrees in storytelling at Columbia University's Creative writing program and AFI’s Directing MFA. A published author of literary fiction, Jianna was a 2021-2022 Sundance Episodic Lab fellow for her pilot EL OTRO LADO, a 90's political thriller set in Mexico a la 'The Wire', explores crime, corruption, and the molding of the modern Americas.   

Having written and directed over fifteen shorts, her previous film SIN CIELO won the Grand Jury Prize at Seattle International and Santa Barbara International, the Young Jury Prize at Palm Springs International Short Film Festival, the Audience Award at Champs Elyées, Grand Jury Prize, Best of Fest, and Audience Award at Ivy Film Festival, and many more wins around the world. With over 120 official selections world wide, SIN CIELO was named top ten at AFI fest and a 2020 Oscar contender distributed on HBO Max North America and Europe.

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ADRIANA SANTOS | HEY YOU GUYS

Fresh off a high profile breakup, an ultra successful Youtuber’s reluctant return to her childhood home in Miami spirals into a sinister confrontation with the people, history and trauma she fled for fame.  

 

Adriana Santos is a Colombian-American writer, actor and filmmaker from Miami, FL. She has a BFA in Drama from NYU Tisch and an MFA in Playwriting from The Writer's Foundry in Brooklyn. Her plays have been developed regionally and in New York. A TV adaptation of her play CATHOLIC ALL GIRLS SCHOOL was an official selection of The Gotham’s Project Week and is in development with Gina Rodriguez’s I Can & I Will Productions. Screenwriting credits include SHUTTERBIRD directed by Justin R. Ching and THE END OF THE PARTY directed by Kate Sullivan (2024 Tribeca Film Festival). Original shorts include HEY YOU GUYS and BIRTHDAY GIRL. Adriana is an alumna of IAMA Theatre Company’s Emerging Playwrights Lab, Ensemble Studio Theatre LA’s New West Playwrights and the Latinx Playwrights Circle. As an actor, Adriana has worked across film, TV and theatre. Recently, Adriana has been contributing writing to Miami New Times.

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DONNA BONILLA WHEELER | CLASH

When an Indigenous Latina combat vet is faced with impossible medical bills to save her father’s life, she takes a lucrative I.C.E. agent job and hides it from family, triggering a personal moral crisis.

Donna is a narrative director and writer whose focus is stories of women with unusual or heroic skills, humanity, or insights. She explores cultural silencing and erasure, ancestral powers, and rugged individualism and isolationism versus community and belonging. Her scripted works are Nicholl SFs, Gotham No Borders, Slamdance Labs, Austin Film Fest, and MIPTV/Cannes In Development Series selects, among others. As a writer/director, her films have been recognized at U.S. and international festivals, and sold at Cannes / AFM / Berlin markets to stream globally. Donna created and leads the #MentorLatinaDirectors Fellowship for Latina-Indigenous TV and Film Directors, via Alliance of Women Directors. Donna also directs theatre, and is a member of Los Angeles Female Playwrights Initiative.

MENTORS

Jeff Augustin, Micharne Cloughley, Michelle Denise Jackson, 

Laura Marks, Álvaro Rodríguez, Charlie Stratton, Lindsey Villarreal, Shawn Wines

ACTORS
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KATHERINE BANHENA-BENITEZ | Filmmakers' Actor

Katherine Bahena-Benitez, is a queer Mexican Indigenous multidisciplinary artist, bicoastal between New York and California. Katherine is a writer, actor, filmmaker, model and teaching artist. They've trained at  the American Conservatory Theater, the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, Teatro Espejo, The Juilliard School, and Broadway Advocacy Coalition at Columbia University. Katherine has been featured in Vogue, Remezcla, Chillhouse, HEROICA, Netflix, Fenty, RISD Museum Guild, VoyageATL, Chillhouse, YITTY, Apostrophe and Reclamation Magazine. Katherine is a Queer Art Fellow, a Miranda Family Fellow, a LORT Fellow Alumni, Stage Directors and Choreographers Associate Member and recipient of the John Cauble Emerging Arts Leader Award awarded by The Kennedy Center. You can now find their writing in the anthology, Queer Voices of the World: Stories, Poems and Essays responding to worldwide LGBTQ+ Criminalization.

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JOLIE CLOUTIER | Filmmakers' Actor

Jolie Cloutier is a NYC based Native American (Onondaga) actress. In 2024, Jolie has most recently been seen on stage in a production of THE FRYBREAD QUEEN as Lily, directed by Vickie Ramirez, and as Noname in DIRT, directed by Alice Jenkell. In previous years, Jolie has appeared on stage as the title role in SOLEDAD, directed by John Scott-Richardson (2023), and as Helen in THE TROJAN WOMEN, directed by Sarah B. Denison (2022) Jolie is represented by Stewart Talent and TalentOne Management.

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SHARLENE CRUZ | Filmmakers' Actor

Sharlene Cruz is a New York City-based actress. She will next be seen in the independent film, IN THE SUMMERS opposite Sasha Calle, Residente, and Leslie Gracewhich premiered at the 2024 Sundance Film festival and won both the Grand Jury Prize for U.S. Dramatic film as well as the Directing Award. The film will be in theaters this September. Cruz can currently be seen in a major recurring role on the Showtime series FLATBUSH MISDEMEANORS for Showtime as well as a major recurring role on CHICAGO P.D. Last spring, Cruz starred in Bedlam’s production of Talene Monahon’s The Good John Proctor directed by Caitlin Sullivan. She earned rave reviews for her performance in Martyna Majok’s Sanctuary City at New York Theatre Workshop under the direction of Rebecca Frecknall. Sharlene was named one of the Breakout Stars of 2021 by The New York Times for her performance. She was previously seen in Hunter Theater Project’s critically acclaimed all-female production of Mac Beth, adapted and directed by Erica Schmidt, in a role she originated at the Lucille Lortel Theatre in 2019 in NYC. She previously starred in CA Johnson’s The Climb under the direction of Jenna Worsham at the Cherry Lane Theatre in New York City.

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MAJOR CURDA | Filmmakers' Actor

Major Curda is a Korean-American multi-disciplinary storyteller who was last seen as “Romeo” in NAATCO's Off-Broadway production of ROMEO & JULIET; prior to which Major could be seen opposite South Korea’s recording superstar Luna in the Broadway musical KPOP! As an artist with a love for reifying classic stories, Major recurred on the CW smash hit series RIVERDALE as “Dilton Doiley” and on Netflix’s ATYPICAL as “Arlo” and recently shot the independent feature YOU DON’T BELONG HERE opposite Shane West and Nikki Roumel. In addition to other Broadway, touring, and regional theatre credits, Major has recurred on multiple Nickelodeon shows and web-series, as well as hosted an AwesomenessTV game show; while on the voiceover side, they are the host voice of multiple Xbox One Disney video games. Major is a graduate of the Carnegie Mellon School of Drama and a member of One Year Lease Theatre Company. @Majorly.MC Website: MajorCurda.art

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STEPHEN ELROD | Filmmakers' Actor

Stephen Elrod is a Brooklyn based actor. Recent credits include THE LEHMAN TRILOGY (Denver Center for Performing Arts) and Harper Lee's TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD by Aaron Sorkin, directed by Bartlett Sherr (First National Tour and the Kennedy Center). Additionally, Off-Broadway: SIDEWAYS (Theatre at St. Clement's), WHEN IT HAPPENS TO YOU (The Sheen Center). Regional: THE WHO AND THE WHAT (TheaterWorks Hartford), MACBETH, OTHELLO, THE TAMING OF THE SHREW (Shakespeare Theatre Company, DC), SONGS OF BILITIS (South Coast Repertory).

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JUAN CARLOS HERNANDEZ | Filmmakers' Actor

Juan Carlos Hernandez was in the Broadway production of WAIT UNTIL DARK. Off-Broadway credits include: A QUESTION OF MERCY, THE MOST FABULOUS STORY EVER TOLD, WATER MUSIC, SOULS OF NAPLES, TELL HECTOR I MISS HIM, and BIG AL. Regional Theater includes: A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM, THE MILK TRAIN DOESN’T STOP HERE ANYMORE, THE DRESSER, KING LEAR, THE MERCHANT OF VENICE, and THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR. Television includes: GUIDING LIGHT, OZ, THE BLACKLIST, BLUE BLOODS, THE MYSTERIES OF LAURA, and LAW AND ORDER. Voice work include the cartoons PINKALICIOUS & PETERRIFIC and CLICK AND CLACK’S AS THE WRENCH TURNS. Movies: TOWER HEIST, COP OUT, THE MERCY MAN, CARLITO’S WAY: RISE TO POWER, AGAINST THE ROPES, IN AMERICA, GARMENTO, and HIGH CRIMES. He has done reading workshops for Neil Simon, Edward Albee, Nilo Cruz, Jeannie Berlin, and others. Juan Carlos grew up in Hammond, Indiana and Miami, Florida. He is a graduate of Loyola University and The Juilliard School.

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CHARLIE HUDSON III | Filmmakers' Actor

BROADWAY: A RAISIN IN THE SUN.  OFF BROADWAY: NOLLYWOOD DREAMS (MCC Theater), (A) LOFT MODULATION (American Vicarious), HURT VILLAGE (Signature).  REGIONAL: WELCOME TO MATTESON (NJ Rep), KING HEDLEY II, A RAISIN IN THE SUN, SEVEN GUITARS (Two Rivers Theater), DETROIT ’67 (Playmakers Rep), THE MOUNTAINTOP (Northern Stage), FATHER COMES HOME FROM THE WARS (ART), CLYBOURNE PARK, BENEATHA’S PLACE, (Baltimore Centerstage); THE PIANO LESSON (Yale Rep), MASTER HAROLD AND THE BOYS (Portland Stage Company); FLY (Crossroads Theater), RICHARD III, ALL THE KING’S MEN, CYRANO DE BERGERAC, (Trinity Rep), MOTHER COURAGE (Public Theater/NYSF), THREEPENNY OPERA (WTF).  TELEVISION: ARCHIVE 81(Netflix),  DAREDEVIL: BORN AGAIN (Disney), MANIFEST (NBC), THE NIGHT OF (HBO), NCIS: HAWAII (CBS), SHADES OF BLUES (NBC), THE GOOD FIGHT (CBS), UNFORGETTABLE (CBS), FOREVER (ABC), THE ROSA PARKS STORY (CBS), AND A RAISIN IN THE SUN “REVISITED” (PBS). FILM: ROXANNE, ROXANNE; COMPLETE UNKNOWN; TWELVE; NEWLYWEEDS; LILLIAN.  TRAINING: Alabama State University and Brown University/Trinity Repertory Consortium. I would like to thank my family for their love and support.

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SHUBHANGI KUCHIBHOTLA | Filmmakers' Actor

Shubhangi Kuchibhotla (she/her/hers) was most recently seen at Ford's Theatre in the world Premiere of SOMETHING MOVING A MEDITATION ON MAYNARD.  She is also a company member at ONLY MAKE BELIEVE alongside the NYC cast. Most recent regional credits include: BACCHANALE at The Mark O'Donnell Theatre, THE WEIGHT OF EVERYTHING WE KNOW at Theatre Raleigh, F*BOY FRANKENSTEIN at Theatre for the New City, DANCE NATION at Olney Theatre, MISS HOLMES RETURNS at Greater Boston Stage Company, BE HERE NOW at Everyman Theatre, THE RIGHT TO BE FORGOTTEN at Arena Stage and WHITE SNAKE at Constellation Theatre. She is a classically trained Kathak Dancer and a proud UMBC Alumni! @shubhyk/ Kshubhangi.com

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LAKISHA MAY | Filmmakers' Actor

Lakisha May (she/her)

Broadway: JAJA’S AFRICAN HAIR BRAIDING, SKELETON CREW (Manhattan Theatre Club) 

Off-Broadway: EVERYBODY, IN THE BLOOD (Signature Theatre Company), SOJOURNERS (NYTW, Playwright’s Realm), THE MISER (Moliere in the Park)

Regional Theater: La Jolla Playhouse, American Conservatory Theater, Alliance Theater, Arden Theatre, Marin Theater Company, and others. 

Film & TV: HISTORIAS DEL CANAL, CITY ON A HILL, BOARDWALK EMPIRE, LAW & ORDER: SVU, FOREVER, BLUE BLOODS and others. 

Education: MFA, The American Conservatory Theater. BA, Spelman College. 

Lakisha serves with SÜPRMARKT and SÜPRSEED providing organic produce and groceries to those suffering under food apartheid in the United States. kishamay.com @kisha_may @FarmerKisha

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ALICIA PILGRIM | Filmmakers' Actor

Alicia Pilgrim. constantly evolving & wondering what ways can i cultivate authenticity, love, community and truth in whatever art form that speaks to me. selected credits as follows Off-Broadway: CULLUD WATTAH (The Public) I’M REVOLTING (Atlantic Theatre) theatrical workshops: LOVE I AWETHU FURTHER (EOPC), WHEN WE COME ALIVE, WJLB (NYTW), FURLOUGH’S PARADISE (MTC), WHAT WE DESERVE (BAC), ‘TIA PRAY A SOUND (BTB) SOUND CURATION: GUTTAH (GAP) & DREAM MACHINE (LC) Film: A THOUSAND AND ONE (Focus), RANDOM ACTS OF FLYNESS (HBO), SKETTEL (FWMP), ROB PEACE (Participant) Training: SUNY PURCHASE BFA & DESA

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TRAVIS RAEBURN | Filmmakers' Actor

TRAVIS RAEBURN is currently in the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival shows’ BY THE QUEEN and THE MURDER OF ROGER ACKROYD. Some credits include PACKAGES O’ THE THINGS WE DELIVER with The National Black Theatre, Acting Company’s National Tour Of ROMEO & JULIET/THREE MUSKETEERS, MCC Theater’s SOFT, “WU-TANG: AN AMERICAN SAGA,” FIRST MATCH, commercials for MasterCard USA, Xfinity, and Pop Tarts and IN THE SOUTHERN BREEZE at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater. Raeburn thanks his mother, grandmother and family for their support. Along with acting he is also a teaching artist, serving predominantly students of color. He is also a poet and his music is streaming on all platforms under TravRae. Black lives always will matter. Training: SUNY Purchase BFA Acting and LaGuardia Arts High School(Drama) 

Instagram @travierae.

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SOCORRO SANTIAGO | Filmmakers' Actor

Socorro Santiago

Actor, Writer, Producer,  and Designer

Broadway: THE BACCHAE at Circle In The Square. Off-Broadway: DANCING WITH THE DEAD (INTAR) Writer, Producer, Designer and Actor.

Other credits include plays performed at The Public, Delacorte Theatre, Town Hall, Roundabout Theatre, Page 73, NYTW, EST, Here,  Clubbed Thumb, Soho, Ma-Yi Theatre, and INTAR among others.

Tours: SMALL MOUTH SOUNDS (Director: Rachel Chavkin)

Regional: Shakespeare Theatre,  ACT,  LongWharf, Yale, Hartford, Two River Theatre, Guthrie, The Goodman Theatre , Victory Gardens, and Huntington Theatre ( IRNE Nomination), and Sundance Theatre among others.

TV: WHAT WE DO IN THE SHADOWS (recurring), MOZART IN THE JUNGLE (recurring), CHICAGO PD, BLUE BLOODS,  PRODIGAL SON, LAW & ORDER, LAW & ORDER CI, LAW & ORDER SVU, CHARACTERS, ALL MY CHILDREN (ALMA award for her work as Isabella Santos) among many.

Films:  Netflix: CHRISTMAS WITH YOU, IGILBERT, ALL GOOD THINGS, DEVIL’S ADVOCATE,  VAMPIRES VS THE BRONX, and WIDOWS (Director: Steven McQueen)

Podcasts include Next Chapter- Henry V and A Simple Herstory.

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SHERIN SHETTY | Filmmakers' Actor

Sherin Shetty is an actress and writer who grew up a stone's throw away from New York City and dreamed about playing Julia Roberts' adopted daughter and Mindy Kaling's favorite cousin. While she hasn't gotten those roles yet, she has been fortunate enough to flex her dramatic chops and comedic timing to perform opposite such talent as Anna Kendrick in MAX's Love Life, Zosia Mamet in MAX's The Flight Attendant, Gideon Glick in the Tribeca's No Fault, Asia Kate Dillon in Showtime's Billions, and more. Her recurring work in season 1 of THE FLIGHT ATTENDANT was included in the SAG-AFTRA nominated ensemble for a Television Show - Comedy. When she’s not performing, you can find her cheering on the New York Rangers and rewatching LOST for the millionth time.

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DARIO VAZQUEZ | Filmmakers' Actor

A Bronx native, Dario made his Off-Broadway debut at MCC in Donna R.Love’s SOFT, directed by Whitney White where The New York Times called him “fantastic”.  That same year, Dario made his feature debut in Ray Romano’s SOMEWHERE IN QUEENS, in a comical turn as Emory.

 

Dario was able to continue to explore his comic side in THAT DAMN MICHAEL CHE while also starring in iconic New York shows, BLUE BLOODS, THE GOOD FIGHT and EAST NEW YORK, playing opposite some of his idols.

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