Biography

Born in New York City, Anthony began his career at age five, as Kirk Douglas' godson in the film, "The Brotherhood". He danced and sang in his first Broadway show, Zorba at age 6. He has since performed on Broadway, international & regional stages, film, and TV with celebrities as diverse as Angela Lansbury, Tom Hanks, Dustin Hoffman, Harold Prince, Jerome Robbins, Pete Townshend, Jennifer Lopez, John Guare, Kander & Ebb, F. Murray Abraham, Marisa Tomei, Stephen Schwartz, and Andrew Lloyd Weber.

Quite the renaissance man, Anthony studied filmmaking at School of Visual Arts in New York and UCLA, music composition at Manhattan School of Music, and received a business degree at SMC. His drama education includes the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, American Academy of Dramatic Arts, HB Studios, the Groundlings, BANG Sanford Meisner, Bill Esper, John Kirby and currently Joseph Pearlman. He studied dance with the legendary Phil Black in New York and various teachers at The Edge in Los Angeles, and voice with Ed Dixon, David Craig and Carol Weiss.

With over 50 years of performing under his belt, Anthony is active behind the scenes as well. In 1990, he founded Etc.Inc, a non-profit organization, which 1st presented new American theatre in Rome, Italy in Fellini's Repertory Theatre. While a producer with D.I.Y.N. Productions, he completed four short films which won awards on PBS and the festival circuit. He created The Space, a multi-media arts complex in Hollywood. He received an LA TV Critics Award for Best Actor. After playing and writing pop music with two bands: "Interpret" and "Ariel & Anthony", he turned his composition skills toward the stage. He is a composer in development with NMI and composed the scores for the musicals "Murder at the Palace" and "Powder Puff Derby".

Working extensively through Europe, Asia, Australia and the US (covering all 50 states!) Anthony is also very interested in cultures and food! He was co-founder of Thats A Nice!, a specialty southern Italian gourmet food line, winning a SOFI Silver Award (the "Oscars" of the food biz) and a Bronze Medal at the World-Wide Mustard Competition.

He continues to act, dance and sing on TV, Stage and Film. Always ready for the next project, Anthony is writing an auto-biographical musical, a comedy web-series and a bio-pic of the late Sal Mineo.

- IMDb Mini Biography By: AJ Marciona