Eric Paterniani

Eric Paterniani is an Italian actor with years theatre and camera work between New York, Los Angeles and Rome. Praised by the New York Times for "evincing an Italian accent with Pythonesque zeal" for The Taming Of The Shrew (Grumio) he also starred in The Two Gentlemen Of Verona (Launce), The Tempest (Caliban), The Merchant Of Venice (Launcelot) and Measure For Measure (Elbow) for Bryant Park Shakespeare. Other NY credits are Oedipus Rex (Oedipus), Three Sisters (Tuzenbach), El Cruce Sobre El Niagara (Carlo), The Rocky Horror Show (Eddie), Line (Arnall) and The American Mime Theatre Company Repertory. He was part of several national tours with The Panto Company USA including The Little Mermaid and Sleeping Beauty. In Los Angeles he made his playwright debut with "Longing Pinocchio". In Rome he directed La Seconda Luna, La Sposa Fantasma and RENT in Dec '24. From Ravenna, Italy, Eric is a Rome Theatre Academy Alumni, Golden Gemini Award winner and Latin Critics ACE Award Nominee, acting in English, Spanish and Italian.