Lawrence Arancio has appeared in over three dozen plays in New York, Chicago, Pittsburgh, and Los Angeles, including The Usher's Ball, Drawer Boy, Awake and Sing, School for Scandal, Otherwise Engaged, Ivanov, The Nerd, The Normal Heart, The House of Blue Leaves, Good, and Table Manners. His film and TV roles include "Extreme Measures", "Saving Shiloh", recurring roles on "Total Security" and "As the World Turns", and guest starring roles on "Law and Order" (three times), "The Practice" and "Party of Five." He has taught at HB Studio, AMDA and Columbia College Chicago. As a writer, his short stories and poetry have appeared in The Iowa Review, Poetry East, Sycamore Review, Rosebud and other literary journals; and his plays Mystery in Space, Alcimero and Sing for your Supper have been produced in New York and Chicago. He has been married to the actress Ann Dowd for a long time, and they have two wonderful children.
