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The brilliant, multi-talented Frank Ferrante, has enjoyed a 35-year career in the theater as an actor, director and producer.

At age 23, he debuted Off-Broadway in the title role in Groucho: A Life in Revue written by Arthur Marx, son of the legendary comedian Groucho Marx. For that role, Frank won New York\\u2019s Theatre World Award and a New York Outer Critics Circle nomination. He revived the role in London\\u2019s West End, where he was nominated for the Laurence Olivier Award for \\u2018Comedy Performance of the Year.\\u2019\\xa0

Since then, he\\u2019s reprised the role more than 3,000 times in over 500 cities throughout the world primarily in his touring solo show An Evening With Groucho, which was filmed at the Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park and re-titled Frank Ferrante\\u2019s Groucho for broadcast on PBS.

The Chicago Tribune named Frank a 2019 top ten theater performer for his work as comic host, The Caesar, in the cirque spectacular, Teatro ZinZanni \\u2013 a role he\\u2019s played for 20 years.\\xa0

At Philadelphia\\u2019s Walnut Street Theatre, he directed and played the lead role of Pseudolus in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, which the Wall Street Journal called one of the country\\u2019s top 10 performances of 2017.

In 1995, he directed and developed the world premiere of the Pulitzer Prize finalist Old Wicked Songs.

On television, he played a speaking mime on Rob Corddry\\u2019s Emmy Award-winning comedy, Childrens Hospital, and his voice can be heard on the animated series SpongeBob SquarePants and Garfield.\\xa0

In October 2021, Frank received a 'star' on the Palm Springs Walk of Stars for his contributions to theater.