Writer/Director
Charles
Messina
is a native New Yorker, born and raised in
Greenwich
Village
.
He is a graduate of
New
York
University
.
At NYU,
Messina
won the Baffin Award for Best Newcomer to the NYU/GSP Theater.
He also served as Director of the NYU Interactive
Theater Program.
Messina
directed the current off-Broadway hit run of Cirque
Jacqueline, the
one-woman show about the life of Jackie
Kennedy Onassis, starring Andrea
Reese. Stage Press
Weekly calls the show, �Warm, interesting, entertaining, and
humanizing.� Backstage
hails Cirque Jacqueline as �Magnifique!�
Messina
also directed last season�s off-Broadway hit monodrama
Mercury:
The Afterlife and Times of a Rock God, about the life
of rocker Freddie
Mercury, which The
New Yorker called �Powerful!� and Backstage
praised as �A powerhouse of emotional and sexual energy.�
Messina
wrote and co-produced the feature film Spy,
starring Vincent
Pastore, Frank
Vincent and Ben Curtis, which is now in post production for a late 2005 release.
Messina
is currently in development on the musical Be My Love, about the tragic life of legendary tenor Mario
Lanza. The show is being produced by Sonny
Grosso and Phil
Ramone. The book is written by Richard
Vetere.
Messina
is co-founder of NahNotOutsideMyHouse! Productions, Inc. The unique company name
comes from the phrase uttered by legendary tough guy Robert
DeNiro to Messina
when the young writer tried to hand a script to the actor
outside his downtown home.
Cindy Adams of The
NY Post jokingly wrote, �NahNotOutsideMyHouse! Productions
is going to need the widest stationery in captivity.�
To
find out more about Charles Messina, please log on to www.nahproductions.com
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