Owner / Artistic Director

Mr. Licari has been a theater, television and film professional for twenty years. His performing arts interest started as a musician at the young age of four years old where he began studying classical accordion. From the age of four through the age of eighteen, he studied accordion, piano, guitar, bass guitar as well as vocal technique. He discovered acting at the age of fifteen and began performing in high-school theater. At the age of eighteen, he wrote, directed, produced and starred in an original one-act play entitled It’s Hard To Find The Right Man with which he won Best Original Play and Best Actor at The Sears Drama Festival (Canada) in 1990. That summer he was awarded a full scholarship to study at The American Musical & Dramatic Academy in NYC. He went on to graduate as well as study privately with instructors from The Neighborhood Playhouse, The Actor’s Loft and Berklee College of Music.

In 1992, during his last semester at AMDA, he entered his winning play into The Village Gate One Act Festival, with which he won again for Best One Act Play. He was selected to stage his production, which he directed and starred in, at the famed Village Gate Theater in the West Village opening up in the downstairs theater while Jacques Brel premiered on the main stage. Following this success, Mr. Licari went on to perform in over forty stage productions, fifteen films and two television shows in NYC. He was a cast member of the Obie and Drama Desk award winning show, Blue Man Group for almost three years and one thousand shows. He also co-starred in the WWII film, The Fallen, winner of the Milan and Brooklyn International Film Festivals. Additionally, Frank made guest appearances on NBC’s Law and Order and CBS’s Dellaventura starring Danny Aiello. Performances with The Lincoln Center director’s lab followed and he was honored to grace the stage at The Rainbow Room at Rockefeller Center two different times. Mr. Licari made guest appearances and performed at every theater on theater row with various theater companies. In 1994, he also established his own theater company, The Zolotus Ensemble, with which he directed and produced five different productions on theater row including the New York premiere of The Boogeyman by Edward Clinton and the musical Round for Four at The Arielle Theater. Along with the aforementioned, he performed at Primary Stages and Riverside Shakespeare Company, production managed two musicals for Fred Vogel Productions at The John Houseman Theater as well as production stage managed the film, The Jeffrey Dahmer Story, for Entertainment USA

Upon leaving the cast of Blue Man Group, Frank moved to Palm Beach County, Florida and established his own performing arts school and theater. Atlantic Arts Academy and The Atlantic Arts Theater were established in August of 2000 and Mr. Licari has served as the Artistic Director and Producer for over ten years. The school has over 15 instructors and trained over 4500 students of all ages in dance, drama, musical theater, musical performance and vocal technique. With The Atlantic Theater, Mr. Licari has directed and produced over sixty productions ranging from plays, improv & sketch comedy, live music, dance, indie film, live comedy, children’s theater and more. In 2010, he stage directed and musical directed an experimental musical theater production, Angel In The City, for producer Steve Leiber (Jesus Christ Superstar, Beatlemania, Transiberian Orchestra).

While being in Florida, Frank has also starred in and co-produced two award winning films (House of Heartbreak and Film Contest?) as well as over twenty theatrical, musical and dance productions. He is currently the face and co-writer of Duffy’s Sports Grill‘s regional commercials in Florida. In 2006, Mr. Licari co-founded The Jove Comedy Experience, an improv and sketch comedy troupe, which has won two Impy Awards and two Addy Awards for their sketch comedy and commercial work. They have performed all over South Florida and are now a regular headlining act at the world famous Improv Comedy Club in West Palm Beach and Ft. Lauderdale. Additionally, Mr. Licari is a corporate trainer and master instructor on staff with The Sandler Training Institute, the nations largest corporate training facility. Since 2006, he has also been the regular host of The Palm Beach International Film Festival and recently hosted The Florida Film Legend Awards.

Currently, Mr. Frank Licari is the host of “Recreating A Legend” a new global talent competition that will air in 60 countries and launch in the US on the new Billboard Channel (www.recreatingalegend.com). He is also an assistant director on a new original musical, “Greenwood-The Musical”, which will debut at the New York Musical Theater Festival in October (www.GreenwoodTheMusical.com).

All in all, since the age of four, Mr. Licari has logged over 3500 performances as an actor, director, producer, musician and writer. You can also visit Frank’s personal website at www.FrankLicari.com