Antonio Edwards Suarez is an award nominated actor and educator. He has been teaching actors, at the
Graduate and undergraduate level, as well as private coaching, for over twenty years. He is also a
certified Lucid Body teacher and has been including this work in various aspects of his teaching for the
last decade. Antonio also teaches at Brooklyn College (MFA program), American Academy of Dramatic
Art. He has taught at Princeton (master classes), Marymount Manhattan College, Hunter College, City
College, Cincinnati Playhouse, and Commonwealth Shakespeare Company in Boston. In the summers he
co-teaches Lucid Body Scene Study with Lucid Body founder Fay Simpson at The Lucid Body House.
His acting credits include American Buffalo, Chaucer in Rome on Broadway.
Antonio’s off b’way credits include Entertaining Mr. Sloane, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Dogg’s
Hamlet, Cahoot’s Macbeth and The Trial (Phoenix Theatre Ensemble); This One Girl’s Story (New York
Musical Theatre Festival); Points of Departure (INTAR); Richard III (National Black Theatre); Food
Acts (Lions Theatre); The Hamlet Project (Mac Wellman Theater); Waiting for Godot (Chashama).
His regional/International credits include Antonio’s Song/I Was Dreaming of a Son at The Goodman
Theater- Chicago (Jeff Award nominated); Milwaukee Repertory Theater; and Contemporary American
Theater Festival-West Virginia); Leandro in the international tour of The King Stag; The Night is a
Child (Milwaukee Rep); A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Taming of the Shrew, The Tempest, Julius
Caesar (Commonwealth Shakespeare Company); Havana is Waiting (Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park);
Spinning into Butter (Repertory Theatre of St. Louis); Idiots Karamazov (American Repertory Theater).
Antonio has also been seen in various roles on NBC, CBS, USA Network, HBO.
MFA: MXAT/Harvard