Antonio Sacre | |
|---|---|
 Antonio Sacre at the 2014 Texas Book Festival. | |
| Born | September 23, 1968 Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Notable awards | International Reading Association Notable Books |
| Spouse | |
| Children | 2 |
Antonio Sacre (born September 23, 1968) is an American author, solo performer, and storyteller. He writes and performs internationally, in English and Spanish. [1]
Sacre was born in Boston, Massachusetts to an Irish American mother and Cuban father. He earned a BA in English from Boston College and an MA in Theater Arts from Northwestern University.
He acted professionally in Chicago, Illinois in the 1990s and became a member of the Redmoon Theater company. He studied solo performance with Jenny Magnus and Paula Killen and he studied storytelling with Jim May and Rives Collins.
Sacre was married to actress Missi Pyle from 2000 to 2005. [2] He married again in 2008 and has two children.[ citation needed ]
Sacre's first children's picture book, The Barking Mouse, was published in 2003 by Albert Whitman & Company. In 2004, it was named among the International Reading Association Notable Books for a Global Society. [3] It was also featured on the Teaching Tolerance website.
His next children's picture book, La Noche Buena, was published in 2010 by Abrams Books for Young Readers, and was selected for inclusion in the California Readers Book Collections for School Libraries. [4]
A Mango in the Hand, a Story of Proverbs, another children's picture book, was published in 2011 by Abrams Books for Young Readers and was named Parents’ Choice Approved. [5] It was also selected for inclusion in the California Readers Book Collections for School Libraries.
Sacre's fourth book, My Name is Cool: Stories from a Cuban-Irish-American Storyteller, was published in 2013 by Familius Books. It is a collection of stories for young adults. [6]
Sacre is also a published poet. [7]
As a solo performer, Sacre has written for and performed in festivals and theaters in New York City, [8] Los Angeles, [9] Chicago, [10] Washington D.C., [11] San Francisco, [12] Phoenix, [13] and elsewhere. [14]
He premiered The Hick, The Spic, and The Chick at The Rhinoceros Theater Festival in Chicago in 1996. [15] The show went on to The New York International Fringe Festival [16] [17] where it won the Best in FringeNYC Festival Award. [18]
In 1999, Sacre again won Best in FringeNYC, this time for his solo show My Penis - In and Out of Trouble, as directed by Jenny Magnus. [19] The show was revived in 2010 under the direction of Paul Stein in Los Angeles, where it won Best of the Hollywood Fringe Festival. [20]
In 2004, Sacre was commissioned by the Smithsonian to write and direct a play for children, Pochito’s Pride, for production at the Discovery Theater. [21] [22]
In 2011 Sacre premiered The Next Best Thing, directed by Paul Stein, and had runs in both Los Angeles [23] [24] and New York. [25] [26] The show won Best of the Hollywood Fringe Festival, won a United Solo Theatre Award for Best Storyteller, [27] was nominated for the LA Weekly Theater Award for Best Solo Performance, [28] and was chosen by LA Weekly as a Top-Ten Theater Experience in Los Angeles for 2011.
Sacre's 2012 show, Let Them Eat Meat, was directed by Paul Stein and premiered at the United Solo Theatre Festival on Theatre Row in New York [29] where Sacre won Best Storyteller. [30] The show was revived the following year in Los Angeles with the Solo Collective Theatre Company. [31]
In 2015, Sacre was commissioned to write a 10-minute play for The Car Plays, performed at La Jolla Playhouse.
In 2020, Sacre performed his show, Let Them Eat Meat, as part of the HA Comedy Festival [32] in San Antonio. [33]
As a storyteller, Sacre has performed at the National Book Festival at the Library of Congress, [34] the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the National Storytelling Festival, [35] the Timpanogos Storytelling Festival, [36] [37] and the Fabelhaft! International Storytelling Festival, [38] as well as at museums, schools, and libraries both nationally and internationally. [39] [40] [41] [42] [43] [44] He has also released four storytelling recordings.
In 1994, Sacre started working with teachers and school districts nationwide to foster storytelling culture in schools. [45] [46] In addition to performances for the students that center on drama, storytelling, and writing, he conducts teacher in-services and district-wide trainings. [47] He is committed to helping children discover and embrace their own multicultural backgrounds. [48] [49] [50]
From 2014-2022, Sacre served as the storyteller-in-residence at the UCLA Lab School on the UCLA campus in Westwood, CA.
Kevin Kling is an American storyteller and a commentator for National Public Radio.
Nokugcina Elsie Mhlophe, known as Gcina Mhlophe, is a South African storyteller, writer, playwright, and actress. In 2016 she was listed as one of BBC's 100 Women. She tells her stories in four of South Africa's languages: English, Afrikaans, Zulu and Xhosa, and also helps to motivate children to read.
Leon Conrad is a British polymath: writer, story structure consultant, educator, and specialist in historic needlework techniques known particularly for historically-styled blackwork embroidery designs.
Carmen Agra Deedy is an author of children’s literature, storyteller and radio contributor.
EXIT Theatre is an alternative theater located at 156 Eddy Street, San Francisco, California, in the downtown Tenderloin neighborhood. The theater operates four storefront theaters and annually produces the San Francisco Fringe Festival, the second oldest fringe festival in the U.S. and the largest grass roots theater festival in the San Francisco Bay Area, and DIVAfest, dedicated to creating new plays by women writers.
Enda Walsh is an Irish playwright.
Éric Gauthier is a Canadian writer from Quebec.
William Gerald Ratner is an American voice actor, author and solo performance artist. He is best known as the voice of Flint in Hasbro's syndicated TV cartoon G.I. Joe.
Slash Coleman is an American storyteller, producer, and writer who lives in Richmond, Virginia. The author of "The Bohemian Love Diaries," a personal perspectives blogger for Psychology Today, and a laughter yoga teacher, he is best known for his one-man performance-based storytelling shows which combine clever wordplay, music, and poetic observations about family, spirituality, romantic relationships, and struggles to find a sense of home common with Generation X artists. His work is often compared to that of author David Sedaris.
Joseph (Joe) Hayes is an American author and teller of stories mainly found in the folklore of the American Southwest. Hayes was an early pioneer of bilingual Spanish/English storytelling. Joe currently lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Eating Animals is the third book by the American novelist Jonathan Safran Foer, published in 2009. A New York Times best-seller, Eating Animals provides a dense discussion of what it means to eat animals in an industrialized world. It was written in close collaboration with Farm Forward, a US nonprofit organization promoting veganism and sustainable agriculture.
Brenda Wong Aoki is an American playwright, actor and storyteller. She creates monodramas rooted in traditional storytelling, dance movement, and music. Aoki's work combines Eastern and Western narratives and theatrical traditions such as noh, kyogen, commedia dell'arte, modern dance, Japanese drumming, and American jazz. Most of her performances express themes of history, mixed race, home, gender, and mythology. Aoki is a founding faculty member of the Institute for Diversity in the Arts at Stanford University. Aoki and her husband Mark Izu, an Emmy-winning jazz music composer, are the founders of First Voice, a San Francisco-based nonprofit arts organization.
Terry Joan Baum is an American feminist playwright, known for her treatment of lesbian experience.
Joe Gulla is an American playwright, actor and reality television participant. He is best known for the autobiographical monologues that he writes and performs for the theater. He is a regular performer at Feinstein's/54 Below and Joe's Pub at The Public Theater. An award-winning playwright, his plays have been performed Off-Broadway, nationally and internationally.
Noam Meiri is an Israeli theater artist, actor, director and acting teacher. Meiri is a co-founder of the Tel Aviv Haguf Theater School and Stage for Physical theatre, inspired by the method of Jacques Lecoq. Since 1999 he has served as a professor of Physical Theater at Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen, Germany.
Margaret Read MacDonald is an American storyteller, folklorist, and award-winning children's book author. She has published more than 65 books, of stories and about storytelling, which have been translated into many languages. She has performed internationally as a storyteller, is considered a "master storyteller" ,and has been dubbed a "grand dame of storytelling". She focuses on creating "tellable" folktale renditions, which enable readers to share folktales with children easily. MacDonald has been a member of the board of the National Storytelling Network and president of the Children's Folklore Section of the American Folklore Society.
Bill Hillmann is an American author, storyteller, and journalist. He is a bull-runner and former boxer.
Mary Dimino is an American actress, comedian, author, solo show writer and performer.
Sahand Sahebdivani is an Iranian–Dutch storyteller, musician and founder of cultural center the Mezrab.
Danyah Miller is an English writer and theatre producer.
Best in Fringe Festival Award for excellence in acting in 1997 FringeNYC for his performance in The Hick, the Spic and the Chick, Sacre this year presents a consciousness-raising ritual performance offering insight into the lives and plights of gang and non-gang youth that incorporates poetry, song, drumming, fire, shrine, story and silence.
This show won a Best in Fringe award for Solo performance at the New York International Fringe Theater Festival.
Perhaps no one better understands the need for non-English speaking students to be heard in American classrooms than Chicago-based storyteller Antonio Sacre, but he also knows that one's message is only as effective as the listener's ability to comprehend its meaning. In his work as a bilingual storyteller, he tries to communicate the importance of being able not only to speak but, equally, to understand different languages.
| International | |
|---|---|
| National | |
