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Antonio Sacre

ANTONIO SACRE

  (1968 - )
Nationality:    Cuban-American
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Literary Agent:    Susan Schulman Literary Agency  

Antonio Sacre, born in Boston to a Cuban father and Irish American mother, is an internationally touring storyteller, author, and solo performance artist based in Los Angeles. He earned a BA in English from Boston College and an MA in Theater Arts from Northwestern University. As a playwright and solo performer, Sacre won the Best Storyteller in the 2011 and 2012 United Solo Theater Festival, twice won a Best In Fringe Festival award at the New York International Fringe Theater Festival, and twice was selected as one of the Best of the Hollywood Fringe Theater Festival. His show THE NEXT BEST THING was nominated for a LA Weekly Theater Award and chosen as one of their Top 10 L.A. Theater Experiences in 2011. His nine solo performance pieces have enjoyed critical and popular acclaim at the New York International Fringe Festival in New York City; the San Francisco Fringe Theater Festival; the Hollywood Fringe Theatre Festival and the HBO and Comedy Central Workspaces in Los Angeles; the Rhinoceros Theater Festival and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago; the Kennedy Center; and numerous festivals internationally. As a storyteller, he has performed at the National Book Festival at the Library of Congress, the Kennedy Center, the National Storytelling Festival, and museums, schools, libraries, and festivals internationally. His stories have appeared in numerous magazines, journals, and on National Public Radio. His storytelling recordings have won numerous awards, including the American Library Association's Notable Recipient Award, the Parent's Choice Gold and Silver Awards, and the National Association of Parenting Publications Gold Award. He was awarded an Ethnic and Folk Arts Fellowship from the Illinois Arts Council. As a children's book author, his book The Barking Mouse was published as a picture book by Albert Whitman and Company and was chosen as an International Reading Association's Notable Books for a Global Society. He next two picture books were published by Abrams Books for Young Readers. La Noche Buena, a Christmas Story, was chosen for inclusion in the prestigious California Readers Book Collections for School Libraries, 2011, and A Mango in the Hand, a Story of Proverbs was awarded a Parent's Choice Award in 2011.

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         Brown And Black And White All Over         Buscando Papito         Conjuring Cubans         Dead Run         Eleven Dollar Prophet         Hick, The Spic And the Chick, The         In And Out Of Trouble         Let them Eat Meat         My Penis: In And Out Of Trouble         Next Best Thing, The         Rise Like A Penis From the Flames - A Phallic Phoenix Story         Si La Gente Quiere Comer Carne, Le Damos Carne: If the People Want To Eat Meat, Let them Eat Meat - the Remarable Story Of My Brother         Twice         Up To The Sky

Brown And Black And White All Over

Synopsis:
A sincere, urgent, and often humorous account of a week-long mens gathering in the woods that asks deeply personal and politcal questions of race, indentity, and the possibility of healing.

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1st Produced:
Rhinoceros Theater Festival in Chicago    1997

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Buscando Papito

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1st Produced:
Strawdog Theater    1995

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Conjuring Cubans

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1st Produced:
Live Bait Theatre    1996

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Dead Run

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1st Produced:
Curious Theater Branch    1996

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Eleven Dollar Prophet

Synopsis:
A commentary on performance, theater, and art in general the play explores the insatiable desire of a crowd to be led and the devices of a performer to command that crowd.

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Music by Brian Mendes

1st Produced:
Rhinoceros Theater Festival in Chicago    1999

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Hick, The Spic And the Chick, The

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1st Produced:
New York International Fringe Festival    1997

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In And Out Of Trouble

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Let them Eat Meat

Synopsis:
United Solo Award for Best Storyteller (2011) and Two-time Best-in-Fringe winner (NYC Fringe) presents blisteringly funny, moving exploration of brotherly love. He is not a character actor nor a comedian but someone with a perpetual story and an extraordinary talent for engaging an audience. He is frankly funny, uncompromisingly believable, and above all, kind -- Backstage. Remarkable. . . a serious artist -- Village Voice.
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1st Produced:
Theatre Row Studio
410 West 42nd Street, New York, NY 10036    16 Nov 2012

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Play/Drama

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My Penis: In And Out Of Trouble

Synopsis:
A young man and his -er - thingy. A remarkable, brutally funny, controversial, and disturbing personal exploration of sex, sexuality, and manhood.

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1st Produced:
Rhinoceros Theater Festival in Chicago    1998

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Next Best Thing, The

Synopsis:
Why does every family have a mad uncle? How much gold is there in the world and other questions of importance. The solo performer tells about his delight and ecstasy at finding his perfect woman when both were working in a Chicago Theatre.

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1st Produced:
Theatre Asylum and the Theater of Note at Hollywood Fringe Theater Festival    2011

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1 act 80 min

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Rise Like A Penis From the Flames - A Phallic Phoenix Story

Synopsis:
Two-time Best in FringeNYC winner and most produced playwright in Fringe history (Time Out NY) blends personal narrative, ancient myth, and modern verse to explore love and its aftermath. He's Remarkable . . . a serious artist. - Village Voice. Hilariously honest. - Backstage

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1st Produced:
the Players Loft, New York International Fringe Festival    2007

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Pan Productions

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1h 0m Solo Show Spoken Word/Poetry

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Si La Gente Quiere Comer Carne, Le Damos Carne: If the People Want To Eat Meat, Let them Eat Meat - the Remarable Story Of My Brother

Synopsis:
the brother - from an overweight juvenile delinquent to triathlete

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1st Produced:
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Genre:
Monologue play

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Twice

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1st Produced:
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago    1996

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Up To The Sky

Synopsis:
The play humorously tackles the mother/son relationship from birth through a collection of stories of a son and his chain-smoking mom, a nurse who raised her boys alone and cursed like the working-class Irish girl from south Boston she was.

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1st Produced:
Rhinoceros Theater Festival in Chicago    2002

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