Frank Licari

Frank Licari
Born
🎓 Alma mater	The American Musical and Dramatic Academy
💼 Occupation	Actor, Writer, Director, Producer, Host
📆 Years active	1993-present
👩 Spouse(s)	Natasha Sherritt (4 October, 2014 - present)
👶 Children	1
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Frank Licari is a Canadian actor, writer, director, and producer. He is well-known for his appearances in several films, including Spiral: From the Book of Saw, and TV series such as Blue Bloods and The Hardy Boys.  Frank Licari is the host “On the Town in The Palm Beaches with Frank Licari” on South Florida PBS. and has been nominated for two Emmy Awards. Licari was previously a Blue Man for the Obie and Drama Desk Award-winning play Blue Man Group. Licari has guest starred on numerous television shows, including Blue Bloods (CBS), The Resident (FOX), Bloodline (Netflix), Graceland (USA), Jessica Jones (Netflix), Nashville (ABC), and Burn Notice (USA). In feature films, he has had supporting roles opposite Tom Cruise, Giovanni Ribisi, and Kate Mansi.

Early life

Frank Licari's education concluded at American Musical and Dramatic Academy. On October 4, 2014, Licari married Natasha Sherritt, and they have one child.

Career

Acting career

Frank Licari began his career as an actor in 1993 in New York Theater performing in numerous Off-Off Broadway shows appearing in various theaters on New York’s Theatre Row. In 1996, he had a small walk-on role in “Law & Order” and appeared in films such as Trigger Happy, Devil's Advocate, and Celebrity. In 1997, Licari played the part of Santo in the CBS Television series "Dellaventura". He subsequently appeared in several independent films, including Red Lipstick, Letters from the Dead, the Gothic Line, and the Final Sacrifice.

In 2013, Licari played the role of Guard Hill in the"Burn Notice" episode "Scorched earth." He appeared in three episodes of USA Network’s "Graceland" as the Deputy Director. In 2015, Licari appeared opposite Tom Cruise as a DEA agent in "American Made.” Licari played Reynolds in the 2018 episode "Comrades in Arms" of "The Resident". Licari portrayed Dean McFarlane on "The Hardy Boys" from 2020 to 2022.

Writing career

Licari began his writing career as a playwright and took home the award for “Best Original Play” at the Sears Drama Festival (Canada) in 1991. In 1993, he won “Best One-Act” at The Village Gate One-Act Play Festival (NYC).

In 2014, he co-wrote six episodes of the #1 hit Bahamian TV show, BTC Starmaker: Bahamas.

Licari has written and created various tv shows and movies, such as Walt Before Mickey; A Date with Aaditi, Click Flirt Love and Festive Cooking with Maneet for the TV Asia Network.

Since 2008, he has been writing and creating The Palm Beaches Student Showcase of Films Awards Show, and since 2016, On the Town in The Palm Beaches with Frank Licari on South Florida PBS. In 2022, he wrote the bio-documentaries Jose Feliciano: Behind This Guitar (Peacock Network) and Ice Ice Baby – Hip Hop’s 1^st Global #1.

Directing career

Frank Licari began his career as a director in 1995 on New York’s Theater Row, producing and directing five plays with The Zolotus Ensemble. In 2003, after opening The Atlantic Arts Academy theater in South Florida, Licari went on to direct dozens of theatrical plays, sketch comedy shows and musical theater productions. From 2012-2013, Licari directed the world-tour for 9-Time Grammy Winner, Jose Feliciano.

He began his career as a film and television director in 2017 with the television series A Date with Aaditi for TV Asia Network and subsequently directed other televisions shows for the network including, Click Flirt Love and Festive Cooking with Maneet. He has been the director of The Palm Beaches Student Showcase of Films Award Show since 2012. In 2020, he directed a music video for Jose Feliciano - The Chain and in 2022, he directed the bio-documentary films, Ice Ice Baby - Hip Hop's First Global #1 and Jose Feliciano: Behind This Guitar (Peacock Network).

Producing career

Licari has produced over 200 theater and comedy productions since 1995. He’s produced numerous television programs, such as BTC Starmaker: Bahamas, Web Series, Stark Naked, Click Flirt Love, Brawl for It All, Comedy Doctors, and On the Town in The Palm Beaches with Frank Licari on PBS.

In 2015, he co-produced the full-length feature film, Walt before Mickey. In 2017, he began producing television shows for the TV Asia Network. In 2021, he directed two music videos for the girl group The Glo Up Girls, for their Rock Your GLO and Give a Little GLO campaigns.

In 2022, Licari executive produced the bio-documentaries Jose Feliciano – Behind This Guitar and Ice Ice Baby – Hip Hop’s 1^st Global #1.

Other work

From 2000-2012, Licari founded and ran his own performing arts school and theater called, Atlantic Arts Academy, in Jupiter, Florida. The school has been home to thousands of students and the theater has produced hundreds of productions. Today the school is under new ownership and renamed The Performing Arts Academy of Jupiter remaining a thriving pillar of the South Florida community.

Awards and nominations

Awards and nominations

Year	Category	Nominated work	Result
2020	Nashville Film Festival	Gibson Music Films/Music City Competition Jose Feliciano: Behind This Guitar (2022)	Shared with: Helen Murphy
2009	Addy Award Winner	West Palm Beach Business Development Board Commercial Campaign	Gold
2017	Telly Award	Parmiggiano Reggiano Commercial Campaign with Spit-Ball Advertising	Producing Award
2019-2022	Emmy-Nominated host	On The Town in the Palm Beaches	Nomination for Best Magazine Program

Filmography

Films

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1993	The Secret Life: Jeffrey Dahmer	Himself	Production Assistant - uncredited
1996	Trigger Happy	Vic's Rough House Gang Member (uncredited)
1997	The Devil's Advocate	Juror (uncredited)
1998	Celebrity	Camera Man (uncredited)
2000	Red Lipstick	Lucky	Assistant Fight choreographer
2003	Letters from the Dead
2004	The Fallen	Pipino
2004	The Gothic Line	Pepino
2007	Film Contest?	Mike Kantz	Associate Producer - as Frank A. Licari
2010	The Final Sacrifice	Pepino
2010	House of Heartbreak	C	Producer
2013	Kundalini	Himself	Associate Producer
2013	Krissy Belle	Reminton (Voice)
2014	Secrets of the Magic City	Officer Gomez
2015	Walt Before Mickey	George Winkler	Associate Producer, Executive in charge of Casting, Additional Writing
2015	Papa Hemingway in Cuba	Sal
2016	On Your Street	Rob
2016	The Final Sacrifice	Pepino
2017	American Made	DEA Agent #1
2017	Boyfriend Killer	Nathan Kellers
2019	The Palm Beaches Student Showcase of Films	“Himself as Writer & Director”
2020	Jose Feliciano the Chain	Himself	Editor, Producer, Director
2021	Spiral: From the Book of Saw	Emmerson
2022	The Final Sacrifice: Directors Cut	Pipino
2022	Rock Your Glo: A Glotivation Story		Producer
2022	Jose Feliciano: Behind This Guitar		Executive Producer, Director, Writer
2022	Ice Ice Baby - Vanilla Ice - Hip Hop's First Global #1		Executive Producer, Director & Writer

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1990-	Law & Order	Victim’s Brother (uncredited)	Episode: "Remand" 1996
1997-1998	Dellaventura	Santo	Episode: "Fathers" 1997
2012	Burn Notice	Guard Hill	Episode: Scorched Earth (2012)
2013	Untitled Bernard Salzmann Project	Ramon
2013-2014	Graceland	Deputy Director	Episode: "Pawn” (2013) -    “The Line” (2014) -    “Magic Number” (2014)
2014	BTC Starmaker: Bahamas	Himself (Producer, Writer)	Episode: “Finale” (2014) – Producer, Writer -    “The Recap” (2014) – Producer, Writer -    “The Finale Finish” (2014) – Producer, Writer -    “Death of a Salesman” (2014) – Producer, Writer -    “Wake Up” (2014) – Producer, Writer -    “Say My Name” (2014) – Producer, Writer -    “Casting Episode” (2014) – Producer
2015	Nashville	Anesthesiologist	Episode: Before You Go Make Sure You Know
2015	Webseries	“Dodge” “Himself as Associate Producer”	Episode: “The Premiere” (2015) - Dodge, Associate Producer -    “The Post Production” (2015) - Dodge, Associate Producer -    “The Shoot: Act III” (2015) - Dodge, Associate Producer -    “The Shoot: Act II” (2015) - Dodge, Associate Producer -    “The Shoot: Act I” (2015) - Dodge, Associate Producer -    “The Cast” (2015) - Dodge, Associate Producer -    “The Crew” (2015) - Dodge, Associate Producer -    “The Money” (2015) - Dodge, Associate Producer -    “The Idea” (2015) - Dodge, Associate Producer
2015	A Job. A Wife. A Life	Marvin	Episode: “Religion or. Is There Anything Out There?” -    “Birthday” -    “Jealousy” -    “Health” -    “Money”
2016	Bloodline	Man # 1	Episode: "Part 21”
2016-2017	Stark Naked	Dr. Ritter “Himself as Associate Producer”	Episode: "The Bad News” (2016) -    “The Date” (2016) -    “The Good News” (2017) -    “The Return” (2017) -    “The Offer” (2016) -    “The Webcam” (2016) -    “The Date” (2016) -    “The Audition” (2016) -    “The Office” (2016) -    “The Bad News” (2016)
2017	Date with Aaditi	“Himself as Producer, Writer”
2017- 2020	On the Town in The Palm Beaches on PBS	“Himself as Co-Producer”	18 Episodes
2018	Blue Bloods	Christopher Mancuso	Episode: "The Brave" (2018)
2018	Brawl for It All	“Himself as Executive Producer & Writer”
2018	The Residents	Reynolds	Episode: “Comrades in Arms” (2018)
2018	Click Flirt Love	“Himself as Writer, Production designer & Director”	Episode: “Bhumi and Rasel“ -  “Soumya Sherma & Arjun Bala” -  “Rhadika & Amish”
2018	Jessica Jones	Tabloid #1	Episode: “AKA God Help the Hobo” (2018)
2019	Festive Cooking with Maneet	“Himself as Writer, Producer & Director”
2019	Festive Cooking with Maneet	“Himself as Producer”
2020-2021	Jose Feliciano's Feliz Navidad 50th Anniversary Global Livestream Concert	“Himself as Editor, Producer & Director”
2020	Meaningless Debate	Guest	Collins vs. Licari
2020-2021	Comedy Doctors	“Himself as Producer”	Episodes: “Kroeger, Mosey & Roach” (2021) -    “Allen, Cope & Rogell” (2021) -    “Benny, Chunn & McHugh” (2021) -    “Glazer, Rubino & Voronina” (2020) -    “Collins, Collins & O'Hurley” (2020) -    “DeVito, Rogell & Sialiano” (2020) -    “Marino, Overton & Ramey” (2020) -    “Lara, Shaw & Shea” (2020) -    “Collins, Hunter & Palumbo” (2020) -    “Capo, Shoemaker & Shubert” (2020) -    “Cleese, Hankin & Robinson” (2020) -    “Bey, Manzelli & Turner Jackson” (2020) -    “Cotter, Schultz & Small” (2020) -    “Allen, Collins & Shriner” (2020) -    “Brill, Grooms & Voronina” (2020) -    “Furman, Ploch & Thomas” (2020) -    “Ku, Pizzi & Slayton” (2020) -    “Cope, Croonquist & Miller” (2020)
2020-2022	The Hardy Boys	Dean McFarlane	Episode: "In Plain Sight" (2020) -    “A Figure in Hiding” (2020) -    “Heading for Destruction” (2022) -    “A Midnight Scare” (2022)

Music videos

Year	Title	Staring	Note
2021	Give a Little GLO	McKenzi Brooke Madi Filipowicz Sicily Rose Dai Time	F. Licari as Producer
2022	Rock Your GLO!	Robyn Johnson Abigail Zoe Lewis Malikah Shabazz Liliana Tani	F. Licari as Producer

References

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