Tony Miratti

Tony Miratti is a native of Santa Barbara. He attended the Pasadena Playhouse College of Theatre Arts receiving his education in fields as varied as make-up, diction, movement, mime, fencing, dialects, play analysis, and of course, acting. Tony is a member of the final graduating class of the college. Before he began working as an actor, he was a bus boy and coffee truck driver at Warner Brothers Studios, a tree-trimmer for the City of L.A. for years and a shipping receiving manager for a stereo corporation. In his New York stage debut, Tony won the New York OBIE Award for Best Actor and, over the last 25 years: Best Supporting Actor Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award, Drama Logue and L.A. Weekly Awards, Santa Barbara Independent Awards, and is the recipient of the 2003 Arts Fund Individual Artist Award for his performances. He is a lifetime member of both the Ensemble Studio Theater in New York and the Company of Angels in Los Angeles. Regional stage credits include That Championship Season, Antigone, Noises Off; Lone Star; The Shortchanged Review, The Day the Whores Came Out to Play Tennis, American Buffalo, Julius Caesar, Mister Roberts, Inherit the Wind, and others, from the greater Los Angeles area to Lincoln Center, New York Shakespeare Festival. His directing credits include a varied array from James McClure's Laundry and Bourbon & Lone Star to August Strindberg's Miss Julie. Theatre-goers will remember Tony as Mark Twain in his one-man show, The Trouble Begins at Eight at the Victoria Theatre. Also, at the Center Stage, as 'Pale' in Burn This and Camping with Henry and Tom. He has been spotted in cameo roles in SB Opera Productions of Die Fledermaus and The Barber of Seville at the Lobero Theatre, as well as several appearances at Speaking of Stories and at the Rubicon Theatre in Ventura. Productions at the Garvan Theatre include "The Kentucky Cycle", "Inherit the Wind", "Six Degrees of Separation", "To Kill a Mockingbird" among others. He makes his home in Santa Barbara.