Jimmy Calitri (Director/Actor) holds an A.D. in Studio Art and Design, a B.A. in Theater Performance, a B.A. in Art History and Design, and an M.F.A. in Performance in Society from Rhode Island College. He is a former adjunct faculty member and theatre director in the University of Rhode Island, Rhode Island College, and the Community College of Rhode Island Theatre Departments. Jimmy served as the Director of Theatre Arts at the Narragansett Public School System in Rhode Island for 10 years where he directed The Wiz which was awarded the ’Moss Hart’ award for ’Best Youth Production’ in New England in 2015. Jimmy currently holds the position of Associate Professor of Theater (Acting, Musical Theatre, and Directing) at Providence College as well as Artistic Director of Festival 56. His recent acting credits include appearances in Miss Pixie’s Local Cable Access Holiday Extravaganza at the Sandra Feinstein-Gamm Theatre, URI’s musical productions, Into the Woods, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, and Company by Stephen Sondheim, and Mambo Italiano, a Performing Arts Series production at Rhode Island College. In past seasons at Providence College Jimmy directed The Sweetest Swing in Baseball, Lend Me a Tenor (which was nominated for two Motif Magazine awards for Best Director and Best Production for 2012), Curtains: The Musical, What Dreams May Come, The 25^th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, The Addams Family, Into the Woods, Bat Boy: A Rock Musical, Violet the Musical, 9 to 5 and Pippin. At URI Jimmy directed Boy Gets Girl and also served as an Associate Director for Singing in the Rain, Oklahoma, Little Women, and The Rocky Horror Show. Jimmy also directed A Lie of the Mind and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? at Perishable Theater in Providence which was named ‘Best of Theater in 2010’ by The Phoenix Newspaper and ‘Best Professional Production of 2010‘ by Motif Magazine. At Rhode Island College Jimmy’s directing credits include A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Twelfth Night, Miss Julie, The Taming of the Shrew, and A-MIRROR-CA: A Critical Burlesque on America’s Media-Driven Culture, which was recently revived at RIC and received multiple awards at the KCACTF National acting competition in Washington DC including Best Conception of an Original Work, Best Playwriting, and Best Ensemble. It also earned a performance slot this spring at the Hyannis Region One Festival for the KCACTF national acting competition. Jimmy also directed The Miracle Worker at Rhode Island College which was revived in Plymouth MA in condensed form at an International Fundraiser honoring Helen Keller. In 2015 Jimmy was hired by Ten31 Productions to direct a musical touring production of Alice in Wonderland, scheduled to travel to Dubai and throughout New England. Ten31’s production of Alice in Wonderland was revived in August of 2016 and again in January of 2017. Jimmy also wrote the musical adaptation of Alice in Wonderland for Ten31. For four years Jimmy served as a director and teacher of theatre arts at The Dreamland in Nantucket where he directed Beauty and the Beast, Seussical the Musical, Dreams of a New Year Cabaret, A Mother’s Day Cabaret, Shrek: The Musical, and The Wizard of Oz. In past summer seasons at ‘Festival 56’ in Princeton Illinois Jimmy directed Songs for a New World, Alfred Hitchcock’s The 39 Steps, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dream-Coat, Still Dreaming of a White Christmas, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Seussical the Musical, and The Addams Family. Jimmy is currently the Artistic Director of Education and Training at The White Heron Equity Theatre of Nantucket where he recently finished Directing Carrie: A Rock Musical for the second time. Other directing titles at the White Heron have included The Tempest, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Twelfth Night and Nantucket Mixtape Volumes 1 through 6. Just before the pandemic hit Jimmy directed Assassins the Musical at the Contemporary Theatre which was nominated for best Musical of the year in Rhode Island by Motif Magazine, Carrie: A Rock Musical with Academy of Rhode Island, and he directed the National Premiere of Something Rotten: A Very New Musical. Jimmy recently Co-Directed Little Shop of Horrors at the University of Rhode Island. Recently Jimmy directed the third incarnation of Mark Shanahan’s SEE MONSTERS OF THE DEEP, Urinetown, Carrie: The Musical, and The Little Mermaid at Festival 56 of Illinois at Festival 56, and Guys and Dolls at URI Theatre.