Tony Estrella
Tony Estrella has been artistic director at The Gamm Theatre in Rhode Island for 22 seasons where he has appeared in or directed more than 75 productions. His favorite roles at The Gamm include George in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Frank in Brian Friel’s Faith Healer, Hamlet in Hamlet, Moe Axelrod in Awake and Sing! and Vanya in Uncle Vanya. Directorial highlights include Twelfth Night, Hangmen, Bad Jews, Assassins, JQA, True West, Festen, Sara Kane’s 4:48 Psychosis, A Streetcar Named Desire, and the U.S. premieres of Howard Brenton’s Paul and Sarah Waters’ The Night Watch.
Tony Estrella has been artistic director at The Gamm Theatre in Rhode Island for 22 seasons where he has appeared in or directed more than 75 productions. His favorite roles at The Gamm include George in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Frank in Brian Friel’s Faith Healer, Hamlet in Hamlet, Moe Axelrod in Awake and Sing! and Vanya in Uncle Vanya. Directorial highlights include Twelfth Night, Hangmen, Bad Jews, Assassins, JQA, True West, Festen, Sara Kane’s 4:48 Psychosis, A Streetcar Named Desire, and the U.S. premieres of Howard Brenton’s Paul and Sarah Waters’ The Night Watch. Tony has written several works for the stage including A Lie Agreed Upon and adaptations of Dylan Thomas’ A Child’s Christmas in Wales, Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House and Hedda Gabler, and Barry Unsworth’s acclaimed novel Morality Play. In addition to The Gamm, he has appeared on numerous regional stages. Tony was most recently a part of The Huntington’s production of Tom Stoppard’s Leopoldstadt (U/S Hermann & Ludwig) and appeared as Patrick in last season’s opener, Prayer for the French Republic by Joshua Harmon. This past summer he played Camillo in The Winter’s Tale for the Commonwealth Shakespeare Company. His film credits include appearances in Martin Scorsese’s The Departed, Kenneth Lonergan’s Manchester by the Sea, Greta Gerwig’s Little Women, and The Good House. He is a recipient of the Claiborne Pell Award for Excellence in the Arts and is a longtime member of the theater faculty at his alma mater, URI.
As of October 2024.