Antonio Sacre, born in Boston in 1968 to a Cuban father and an Irish American mother, is an internationally
touring writer, storyteller, and solo performance artist based in Los Angeles. He earned a BA in English from Boston
College and a MA in Theater Arts from Northwestern University. Author of 10 plays and over 30 stories, he has performed
at the Kennedy Center, the National Storytelling Festival, the Library of Congress' Festival of the Book, the Museum of Contemporary
Art in Chicago, and various theater festivals nationwide.
Since 1996, Antonio has created six new solo performance pieces, performing them to both critical and popular
acclaim at the New York International Fringe Festival, PS 122 and PS NBC in New York City; the San Francisco Fringe Theater
Festival; the HBO Workspace, the Knitting Factory, Edgefest, and Area 51 in LA; the Museum of Contemporary Art and the Rhinocerous
Theater festival in Chicago.
The Village Voice calls Sacre "remarkable...a serious artist" and Backstage says Sacre is "powerful, hilariously
honest...the man is an out and out genius." His shows have garnered numerous Critics' Choice awards in San Francisco
and Chicago.
At the New York International Fringe Festival, Sacre won two "Best in Fringe Festival" awards, one in 1997
for Excellence in Acting and one in 1999 for Excellence in Solo Performance.
His storytelling cassette, "Water Torture, The Barking Mouse, and Other Tales of Wonder.," won an American
Library Association's Notable Recipient Award in 2001. His first storytelling cassette, "Looking for Papito," won a
Parent's Choice Gold Award in 1996, as well as a National Association of Parenting Publications Gold Award in 1997.
He was awarded an Ethnic and Folk Arts Fellowship from the Illinois Arts Council in 1998. His retelling of the story
"The Barking Mouse," was published as a picture book by Albert Whitman and Company in 2003. He is a frequent commentator
on National Public Radio (NPR).
He is a member of the Redmoon Theater company in Chicago, a mask and puppet troupe that creates community-based
ritual celebrations. Since 1994, he has taught drama, storytelling, and writing to teachers and students nationwide,
and worked as an artist-in-residence with four high schools in New York, Chicago, and South Central Los Angeles.
