Franco is an actor, director, and educator at the Neighborhood Playhouse School of Theatre. He is the Upper School Drama Director at Rippowam Cisqua School, and a founding member and producer with Wise Fish Theatre Collective. Upcoming: Chelsea Opera’s Puccini at the West End Theatre, written and directed by Garrett Heater.
NY stage credits include: Is This A Graveyard? (The Brick), Twelfth Night (14th Street Y Theater), Deadly Humor (Theatre Row), The Rover and Antigone (Random Access Theatre), Coming to the Hand (Dixon Place), Unreachable Eden (Theater for the New City), Six Characters in Search of an Author (Robert Moss Theater), and Who Am I This Time? And Other Conundrums Of Love (Chain Theatre). Directing credits include new and experimental works at the Samuel French OOB Festival, FringeNYC, Theater for the New City, Chain Theatre, Under St Marks, and the Gene Frankel Theatre.
Franco studied at the Stella Adler Studio, holds a BA in English Literature and Theatre from Stony Brook University, and a MA in Theatre from Hunter College. He is a member of Actors’ Equity, the Educational Theatre Association, and the American Alliance for Theatre & Education.