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Anthony Meindl | |
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Born | Anthony Paul Meindl January 14, 1968 LaPorte, Indiana, U.S. |
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Anthony Paul Meindl (born January 14, 1968) is an American director, screenwriter, actor, author and comedian. He is best known for the direct-to-video series Hard Hat Harry and as the artistic director of Anthony Meindl's Actor Workshop in Los Angeles, California. [1]
Meindl was born January 14, 1968, in LaPorte, Indiana. [2]
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In the 1990s, Meindl starred in Hard Hat Harry, a children's show that was designed to introduce young viewers to various vehicles and construction equipment. [3]
He moved from New York to Los Angeles in 1997, where he featured in commercials for products and companies including Diet Coke, Philips Electronics, Bank of America, Nissan, Michelob Light, Sears, Acura, Del Taco, Mervyn's, and Behr Paint. [4] He also appeared in Off-Broadway stage productions of Titus Andronicus , Merrily We Roll Along , [5] and the LA Weekly Award-nominated Cabaret .
Professing "the incredible lightness of being an openly gay artist", [6] Meindl's film credits deal almost exclusively with LGBTQ themes, including the 1997 drama David Searching, the 1998 drama Minor Details, and the 2000 comedy drama Get Your Stuff. In 2005, he was in the mystery comedy Death of a Saleswoman. In 1998, he appeared in an episode of Will & Grace, "The Truth About Will & Dogs". [7]
Meindl is the artistic director of Anthony Meindl's Actor Workshop that began in Los Angeles and has expanded to Atlanta, Chicago, London, Sydney, New York City, [8] Toronto, Cape Town, Santa Fe, Copenhagen, and Vancouver. He has coached and worked with Shailene Woodley, Chace Crawford, Cory Monteith, Olivia Holt, Ian Harding, Larissa Oleynik, [9] Lorenza Izzo, Logan Paul, Camila Cabello, Jenna Dewan-Tatum, Lucy Fry, Phoebe Dynevor, Pom Klementieff, Sara Sampaio, and Ming Xi.
Meindl is also the host of the In The Moment podcast. The podcast primarily discusses acting and art, and features interviews with casting directors, actors, and industry professionals. [10]
Meindl's first feature screenplay, The Wonder Girls, was the Grand Prize Winning Feature Screenplay in the Slamdance Film Festival Screenplay Competition in 2007. [11] He was nominated for Best Director for the LA Weekly Awards two years in a row for Best Comedy (Swimming in the Shallows), [12] and Best Drama (Dogs Barking). [13] The casts for both shows (members of Metatheatre Company, his acting studio) were also nominated for Best Ensemble in a Comedy and Best Ensemble in a Drama.
His first short, Ready? OK!, played in over a dozen international film festivals, winning numerous "Best of" awards and premiered on MTV's LOGO Network in 2009 as part of their "Click List: Best In Short Film Series." It won the 2008 Planet Out Scion Viewer's Choice Short Film Awards. [14]
The first feature film he directed, Birds of a Feather (2011), won him Best Director awards at the 2012 Downtown LA Film Festival and the 2013 Golden Door Film Festival [ citation needed ]. It also won the Spirit of the Festival Award at the 2012 Honolulu Rainbow Film Festival. [15] The film features Academy Award winner Olympia Dukakis, Bruce Vilanch, and Trevor Donovan.
Meindl wrote and directed Where We Go From Here (2019), depicting issues of immigration, gun violence, and love in the modern world. It premiered at Outfest [16] in 2018 and was acquired by Hulu.
In 2019, Meindl directed the short Is This You, Too?, written by and starring Barbara Howlin. [17]
Anthony Meindl is the author of five books: At Left Brain Turn Right, [18] a spiritual self-help book Alphabet Soup for Grown-Ups, [19] Book the F#king Job!, [20] Book the F#kingJob for Teens, [21] and his memoir You Knew When You Were 2. [22]
He is also a regular contributor to The Huffington Post , [23] The Daily Love, and Backstage.
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1994 | All My Children (TV series) | Waiter | TV series, 1 episode: "Episode dated 20 January 1994" |
1995 | Hard Hat Harry [24] | Hard Hat Harry (credited as Anthony Paul) | Children's TV Series, 2 episodes: "Real Life Fire Trucks For Kids" and "All About... Trucks" |
1997 | David Searching | Diner Waiter | Independent film |
1998 | Will & Grace | Cute Guy (credited as Anthony Paul Meindl) | TV series, 1 episode: "The Truth About Will and Dogs" |
1999 | Any Day Now | Waiter | TV series, 1 episode: "Say Something" |
Behind the Life of Chris Gaines | Ryan Duffy | TV movie | |
Family Law | Scott Kaplan | TV series, 1 episode: "The Fourth Trimester" | |
2000 | Get Your Stuff | Eric | Independent Film |
2006 | Death of a Saleswoman | Ethan Capperlog | Independent Film |
2011 | Birds of a Feather [25] | Mark Daniels | Independent Film/TV Movie |
2018 | Sum of Us [26] | Tony (self) | Feature Film |
2019 | Where We Go from Here [27] | Ricky | Feature Film |