Carl Capotorto

Carl Capotorto was born and raised in the Pelham Parkway section of the Bronx, New York. A writer and actor, he received a B.A. in Liberal Arts from SUNY Purchase in 1981 and an M.F.A. in Playwriting from Columbia University School of Arts in 1984. His plays have been produced at the National Playwrights Conference of the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center (1984, 1985, 1999), Yale Repertory Theater, Theater for the New City, Ensemble Studio Theater and elsewhere. He received grants and fellowships in playwriting and screenwriting from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation, the Edward Albee Foundation and the Chesterfield Writer's Project at Universal Studios. Carl has written and developed original projects for television with executive producers Christine Vachon and Kevin Turen (for Logo TV, 2014), and with executive producers Will Scheffer and Mark V. Olsen, creators of Getting On and Big Love (for HBO, 2010).