Frank Licari has spent the past twenty-eight years on both sides of the camera as well as on and off stages across North America as an Emmy nominated host, award-winning actor/writer/producer/director and musician. In addition to running his own production company, live theater, and performing arts school, he has produced and directed over two hundred live theatrical productions, a dozen films, tv shows and commercials and various concert and festival events.
Along with being a former Blue Man with Blue Man Group and the current host of his own show, On The Town, on PBS, he also produced/directed the 2012-2013 World Tour for 9-time Grammy Winner, Jose Feliciano, and has written, produced, directed the Palm Beaches Showcase of Films Festival Awards Show for the past 12 years. He co-wrote and co-produced the feature length film, Walt Before Mickey, (Netflix, Amazon, Itunes). He created three Network TV shows for the TV Asia Network (2 million viewers), including Click, Flirt, Love and a celebrity cooking show, Festive Cooking, with Maneet Chauhan from Food Network, all of which he also produced and directed. He created the national commercial campaign for ThickHead and also wrote, produced and directed all of their TV and Radio commercials.
As a writer/producer he has won a Telly Award (2016), an Addy Award (2009), a Sears Drama Award (1991) and placed Top 15 in the International Screenwriters Association contest (2015). As an actor, he has guest starred on NBC’s Law & Order, CBS’s Blue Bloods, USA Network’s Burn Notice and Graceland, ABC’s Nashville and Netflix’s Jessica Jones and Bloodline. He has had film supporting roles opposite Giovanni Ribisi, Tom Cruise, Kate Yansi and Chris Rock. He will be seen next in Hardy Boys on Hulu as well as the next installment of the SAW movie franchise both due out FALL 2020. He is a member of SAG/AFTRA and ACTRA.
Other current projects include the documentary film, Jose Feliciano - Behind This Guitar, which was selected for World Premiere at SXSW Film Festival, 2020; the documentary film, Ice Ice Baby - The Truth, on the life of Vanilla Ice and the film and Subverting Destiny, the story of the demise of what could have been the first eco-sustainable city in the country which was brought down by the Founder/CEO of Subway.