Biography

Born in Rockford Illinois, Frank was introduced to the profession at a young age attending every Broadway play touring the Chicago area. As a teen he got his start at New American Theater under founder and director Jim Sullivan (2011 Drama Desk recipient), cutting his teeth with Joe Mantello and Jodi Benson in local theater before assisting Jim Banta with choreography for the motion picture Grease, and developing timing and technique for Michael Jackson. After learning guitar from Benson, he moved to California to pursue music and art.

Frank's roots are method and improv, using both Strausburg and Alders style, along with Spolin's technique, popularized by Mike Nichols in Virginia Wolf. Ditto has studied at Second City, Groundlings, Stella Adler, and Antonio Artuad and holds an MFA in Motion Picture Production from the Academy of Art University.

Frank debuted as the villain in Prophet Nat, with Ted Lange and Hawthorne James, supported Billy Idol in Oliver Stone's motion picture The Doors, and teamed up with Jerusalem director Shady Srour to produce the award winning feature Sense of Need, co-starring as an exploiting art dealer. Frank founded the dark psychedelic band House of Mirrors with artist wife Julie Ditto, releasing several award winning music video documentaries on homelessness and alternative spending of the war budget, airing weekly on Music Underground Television to 55 million viewers in 30 countries. Dick Ham, director of photography for director George Stevens, was so moved by the dailies of Frame of Mind he contributed footage he shot of a secret ceremony in the Catholic church in WWII Spain. Stevens and Ham were the first to film the Nazi concentration camps in WWII.

Ditto used a Zeiss lens, to document Keith Haring painting his largest indoor mural. This is the only shoot of Haring, outside of Robert Maplethorpe's sessions, using a Zeiss lens. Haring's portrait of Frank and Julie became a Haring icon, entitled The Wedding Portrait. He recently contributed as a nomination judge for the Screen Actors Guild Awards. He and Julie have two daughters Elektra Ditto and Winifred Bird.
- IMDb mini biography by: A. Nonymous

I learned the key of life in a screen writing class: Take life seriously, and yourself not so seriously! Most people have it backwards, and it makes for good writing material too!

Craft, craft everyone talks about honing your craft? Try raising craft to an art form. Why remain in the safety of craft when there's risks to be taken.

If you think about it the SAG awards should be tougher than the Oscars. Actors should be judged as actors reaching beyond their last great performance, pushing the envelope so to speak. They should out do themselves because they are competing against themselves, not just other actors. It's the only award where actors are being judged by actors, not just people in the industry. And for that reason alone it's a tougher award.

Although Van Gogh pioneered Impressionism his paintings have subliminal inserts of previous works painted in the petals of his sunflower paintings. Such as his iconic field workers and other works, their identical! I don't think anyone noticed this as he would've been recognized as a surrealist rather than a post impressionist.

The genius of Shakespeare is that he wrote in code ie: Romeo & Juliet is not a love story but a story of betrayal. Romeo a name made up by Shakespeare to describe Rome to go with the name Juliet which means little Caesar. Her family represents the senate's betrayal and his family the people of Rome who Caesar loved. A betrayal of philos and agape encoded in a story of eros that people can identify with outlasting history.