Antone Pagán

About Antone Pagán

Actor Muso / Producer / Director / Writer Antone Pagán is a lifetime member of the famed Actors Studio since the late 80s and has served on its Membership Committee. For decades he has supported fellow actors, writers and directors to develop projects in The Actors Studio Playwright/Directors Unit[PDU] such as Al Pacino, Ellyn Burstyn, Estelle Parsons, Arthur Penn and Frank Corsaro who was instrumental in reuniting Antone with then Studio President Paul Newman who Antone had met and worked with on "Ft. Apache: The Bronx" in his native Bronx. The 2 of these fine Actor & Director gentleman[Frank and Paul]were instrumental in making Antone a lifetime member of The Actors Studio. He more recently supported a project presented 1/22/20 as an Actor-Muso where he brought in a fellow New FAMILY Theater company member Edwin Vazquez as co-musical director to assist him in scoring and playing supportive character music for the "Don Quixotish" piece. As an acting member he has participated since the 80s in the famous Acting Sessions, Playwright/Director Units as well as fully staged Productions such as Maxim Gorky's "The Lower Depths" adaptation "At The Bottom" with Tatum O' Neal and Sonja Sohn in her first play before being cast in HBO's "The Wire". Has also participated in Member seminar /workshops such as Chekov's "Three Sisters" and recently in 2020 in "The Animal Exercise Workshop and Roberta Wallach's Workshop on "Wu Style Tai Chi"; which she was advised decades ago by her former teacher Lee Strasberg to study who truly felt Tai Chi was of the utmost importance for the actors instrument for relaxation while being in an energized state. Antone represented the Elia Kazan-ish character with old school gangster looking wardrobe demonstrating the old original acting exercises that they drilled back in the 40s and 50s during "The 50th Anniversary Celebration" in 1997 of The Actors Studio's inception in 1947 as The The Group Theatre . Members then included Harold Clurman, Lee Strasberg, Cheryl Crawford, Stella Adler, Clifford Odets, Sanford Meisner and Elia Kazan, among others in 1947. At The Actors Studio he has been positively guided and inspired by Frank Corsaro, Miriam Colón, Ruby Dee, Arthur Penn, Lee Grant, Elizabeth Kemp, Harvey Keitel, Al Pacino, Roscoe Lee Browne, Ellyn Burstyn, Estelle Parsons and Paul Calderon (who he has recently studied under again). He has also supported the "Inside The Actors Studio" taping and appeared 'as himself' for the Robert Downey, Jr. episode.He is a long time member of SAG/AFTRA and AEA (Actors Equity)and is a voice actor on several commercials, industrials and video games for example 'Manhunt' Video game 2003 as can be heard Youtube's video "All Innocents Dialogue from Manhunt" where he also wrote the Spanish Dialogue, some of the English and created several Animal and other strange sounds. He's developed a few Spoken Word Theater pieces inspired by his 'Nuyorican' Latino New York roots and some poetic and literary works of Pulitzer Prize nominee, Poet, Activist and Educator: Don Piri Thomas/Tomás who wrote the classic autobiographical "Down These Mean Streets".Mr. Pagan has studied at New York University's Undergraduate Drama - 'Stella Adler' then transferred to Circle in the Square to pursue mime, movement, dance techniques, in addition to his theater/acting studies. This study along with supplemental off campus dance classes at Alvin Ailey led him to several productions (spanning years) of "West Side St...

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