Todd Louiso
- Actor
- Director
- Writer
A graduate of New York University's School of Film & Television, Todd held a wide variety of jobs from working for Academy Award winning writer/director Robert Benton (Bonnie & Clyde, Places in the Heart, Kramer vs. Kramer) to interning at Saturday Night Live, before landing a lead acting role on James L. Brooks' short lived television series, Phenom, which brought him to Los Angeles.
Todd's third directorial feature, Hello I Must Be Going, was in competition and selected at the Opening Night film at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival. The film, released by Oscilloscope, was named one of the Top Ten Independent Films of that year by the National Board of Review and garnered a Best Screenplay award for screenwriter Sarah Koskoff at the Nantucket Film Festival.
Other directing and writing credits include: Cannes competition film, Macbeth starring Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard, Sundance Grand Jury nominee and Waldo Salt Screenplay Award winning film, Love Liza (Sony Classics) with Philip Seymour Hoffman and Kathy Bates, The Marc Pease Experience (Paramount) with Jason Schwartzman, Anna Kendrick and Ben Stiller, the independent television pilot, The Summer People and his short film adaptation of Tom Stoppard's, The Fifteen Minute Hamlet starring Austin Pendleton. His films have screened at London, AFI, San Sebastián, Hamburg, Chicago, Seattle and Toronto film festivals.
Todd has taught directing at the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts, is an Annenberg Grant recipient, and was Artist in Residence at the Sundance Institute's Collab Program. As an actor, he has appeared in many films and television series including Scent of a Woman, Apollo 13, The Rock, Jerry Maguire, High Fidelity, Silicon Valley and most recently the Rodrigo Garcia film, Raymond and Ray with Ewan McGregor and Ethan Hawke for Apple+.
Todd's third directorial feature, Hello I Must Be Going, was in competition and selected at the Opening Night film at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival. The film, released by Oscilloscope, was named one of the Top Ten Independent Films of that year by the National Board of Review and garnered a Best Screenplay award for screenwriter Sarah Koskoff at the Nantucket Film Festival.
Other directing and writing credits include: Cannes competition film, Macbeth starring Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard, Sundance Grand Jury nominee and Waldo Salt Screenplay Award winning film, Love Liza (Sony Classics) with Philip Seymour Hoffman and Kathy Bates, The Marc Pease Experience (Paramount) with Jason Schwartzman, Anna Kendrick and Ben Stiller, the independent television pilot, The Summer People and his short film adaptation of Tom Stoppard's, The Fifteen Minute Hamlet starring Austin Pendleton. His films have screened at London, AFI, San Sebastián, Hamburg, Chicago, Seattle and Toronto film festivals.
Todd has taught directing at the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts, is an Annenberg Grant recipient, and was Artist in Residence at the Sundance Institute's Collab Program. As an actor, he has appeared in many films and television series including Scent of a Woman, Apollo 13, The Rock, Jerry Maguire, High Fidelity, Silicon Valley and most recently the Rodrigo Garcia film, Raymond and Ray with Ewan McGregor and Ethan Hawke for Apple+.
