Bill Galarno began his New York professional theatre life as an off-Broadway actor in Sartre’s The Flies (Orestes) and in Lessing’s Nathan the Wise (as the Knight-Templar). He soon moved on to roles in Broadway tours of The Sound of Music (Rolf), Move Over Mrs. Markham (opposite Julia Meade) and 110 in the Shade, with Will Geer.

On Broadway, he appeared at Lincoln Center in Candide (with Alan Arkin and Madeline Kahn) and Abe Lincoln in Illinois (starring Sam Waterston); he also reprised his Sound of Music role at New York’s City Center.

In the U.S., he has acted in at least 150 productions. He also performed Shakespeare in London, and was featured in Absurdities, a musical revue, in Amsterdam in 1976.

Bill holds a B.A. degree in Speech and Theatre from Michigan State University. He also studied with teacher-director Lloyd Richards in New York City. He has taught speech at Ohio University and musical theatre at Turtle Bay Music School in Manhattan.

He has staged more than 60 productions throughout the U.S. Recent directorial chores include You Can’t Take It With You at Fordham University (in New York City) and Neil Simon’s Rumors at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. In New York City, he has staged The Boy Friend for the St. Bart’s Players, Split Ends at Theatre East, California Suite for Actors Alliance, and Love Letters at South Street Seaport.

A produced playwright, Bill has won both an ASCAP Award for Kiss, Comrades, Kiss! and a CAPS Grant from the New York State Council on the Arts (For the Love of Suzanne, produced at New York’s Martinique Theatre in 1974). He is also the author of The Boston Broadcast of 1932,which premiered at Actors Theatre of Nantucket, played the provinces, and was revived at the University of Iowa in 2001.

On feature film, he has appeared in The Horror of Party Beach, (20th Century Fox); New York Nights (1984); Violated (1986) with John Heard; and with Richard Gere in The Hoax.

DIRECTING
NATIONAL TOUR
THE BATTLE CRY OF FREEDOM

NEW YORK
THE BOY FRIEND SPLIT ENDS CALIFORNIA SUITE A LOOK BEHIND THE CURTAIN WHO KILLED CYNTHIA KAYE? SHOWING OFF SHAMELESSLY THE ROAD TO RENO HOMEFRONT HARMONIES WAITING FOR THE E TRAIN (musical) THE SINGING SCALADUCCI SISTERS DISCOVER BARBARA!

STOCK -THE GUYS
ANGEL STREET
THE NORMAL HEART
RELATIVELY SPEAKING
THE BOSTON BROADCAST OF 1932
THE ODD COUPLE

DINNER THEATRE
THE OWL AND THE PUSSYCAT
SQUABBLES
THE ODD COUPLE (Female Version)
BRIGHTON BEACH MEMOIRS
THE OWL AND THE PUSSYCAT

COMMUNITY THEATRE
WHOSE LIFE IS IT ANYWAY?
BROADWAY BOUND
ONE TOUCH OF VENUS
A FUNNY THING HAPPENED... FORUM
THE GLASS MENAGERIE
BROADWAY BOUND
LUNCH HOUR (Jean Kerr)
BLITHE SPIRIT
CONTRIBUTIONS (Ted Shine)
THE OFAY WATCHER/HAPPY ENDING
PURLIE VICTORIOUS

UNIVERSITY THEATRE
THE CRETAN WOMAN (Robinson Jeffers) THE POTBOILER THE MOLEHILL

WRITING
A CHRISTMAS CAROL
THE BOSTON BROADCAST OF 1932
FOR THE LOVE OF SUZANNE!
KISS COMRADES, KISS! (Play w/inusic)

 

ACTING

BROADWAY
ABE LINCOLN IN ILLINOIS THE SOUND OF MUSIC CANDHME

NATIONAL TOURS
no IN THE SHADE
MOVE OVER MRS. MARKHAM THE SOUND OF MUSIC

CLASSICAL/REPERTORY
RICHARD H
FAUSTUS
HENRY IV, PART 2
THE TEMPEST
TITUS ANDRONICUS
MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR
ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL
PERICLES
AS YOU LUCE IT
CYRANO DE BERGERAC
MARAT/SADE

REGIONAL/STOCK
DANCING AT LUGHNASA
NOISES OFF
A CHRISTMAS CAROL
SINGIN' IN THE RAIN
GIGI
THE BOY FRIEND
BABY
TOM JEFFERSON
THE GINGERBREAD LADY
WATT UNTIL DARK
CHARLEY'S AUNT
ARSENIC AND OLD LACE
THE HOSTAGE
THE MAN WHO CAME TO DINNER

FILM
NEW YORK NIGHTS VIOLATED with John Heard