Tony Abatemarco

co-artistic director, Skylight Theatre. He received two National Endowment Directing Fellowships, founded two seminal L.A. theatres: Accident Theatre and The Night House, and has directed on Broadway (Julie Harris in Lucifer’s Child), at The Arts Theatre in London’s West End (Robyn Peterson’s Catwalk Confidential), regionally and in Paris. He has made more than five dozen guest appearances on television, in feature films, and in commercials.

As an actor, he won the Ovation Award for Lead Actor in The Mystery of Irma Vep and he is a three-time Los Angeles Drama Critics’ Circle nominee for lead performance, including South Coast Rep’s Bach at Leipzig, and most recently for Red at International City Theatre, Long Beach. He has appeared in Long Beach Opera’s The Soldier’s Tale by Stravinsky, LA Opera's Wonderful Town by Leonard Bernstein and in the Mozart Festival’s Abduction from the Seraglio by Mozart. Selected on-camera work includes How to Get Away with Murder, the films Town & Country, Sleeping with the Enemy, HBO’s Sacrifice, The L Word, E.R. and Frasier.

As a playwright, he has won LA Weekly and Drama-Logue awards. His anthology of four produced plays, ACTION/ITEMS: The Collected Plays of Tony Abatemarco, Volume 1, was published by F-Stop Books.

As well as teaching acting at the USC School of Dramatic Arts for fifteen years (retired), he is in his third decade teaching at the Emeritus program of Santa Monica College.