Chair of the Interdisciplinary Conservatory
Program Director - Master of Arts in Theatre Directing
About Me
Jim Iorio has been a nationally recognized actor for several decades on both stage and screen. New York credits include: Broadway in the Tony Award-nominated A View from the Bridge (w/Scarlett Johansson & Liev Schreiber), Off-Broadway in A Stone Carver (opposite Dan Lauria), Kaos at the New York Theatre Workshop, directed by MacArthur Award-winner, Martha Clarke and the premier of Carson Krietzer鈥檚 Flesh and the Desert at the New York Summer Play Festival. Regional work: leading roles at major theatres nationwide, including the Guthrie Theatre, Utah Shakespeare Fest., Arizona Theatre, San Jose Rep, Missouri Rep, Portland Center Stage, Geva Theatre, Asolo Theatre and many more. He鈥檚 directed at the New York International Fringe Festival, and received the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival Directing Award for his production of Tartuffe. Television/film work includes principal roles on Grimm, Leverage, Multiple episodes of Law & Order, Law & Order:CI, Law & Order:SVU, Queens Supreme, The Street, Another World, One Life to Live, Loving, Going the Distance and Petty Crimes. Playwriting work includes a new translation of Carlo Gozzi鈥檚 The Raven, and powerful 90-minute adaptations of Shakespeare鈥檚 Macbeth, Julius Caesar and As You Like It (all available for production). Upcoming work: a recurring role on the audio drama: Mission: Rejected, now in its fifth season; he鈥檒l be directing Schoenberg鈥檚 Pierrot Lunaire at Guaneri Hall this December, and he is currently directing As You Like It at CCPA/藏精阁. He holds an MFA from New York University鈥檚 Tisch School of the Arts Graduate Acting Program, a certificate from the Moscow Art Theatre and is a Black Belt in Taekwon-do.
- M.F.A. Acting 鈥� New York University, Tisch School of the Arts
- Cert. Acting 鈥� Moscow Art Theatre
- B.A. Theatre 鈥� State University of New York at Oswego