Artistic Director Robert Castle began his career as an actor, studying with Lee Strasberg and Peggy Feury. He has guest starred in dozens of TV shows, including Hill Street Blues, Kojak, Police Woman, Knot’s Landing, Eight is Enough, and starred in the CBS special If I Love You, Am I Trapped Forever? Film credits include roles in Big Bad Mama, Ruby and Oswald, The Jezebels, Murder in the First Person Singular and TILT, in which he co-starred with Charles Durning and Brooke Shields. On stage he has performed major roles in scores of professional plays in New York and Los Angeles.

Castle’s background in acting and in still photography enabled him to enter UCLA Film School. Films written and directed by Castle have won the Jury Prize at the N.Y. Film Expo, an award of merit from the Chicago International Film Festival, the Silver Star at the Sacramento International Film Festival, screenings at the Vancouver and Houston International Film Festivals and on WNYC-TV of New York. He’s won the Frank Glicksman Award, the Peter Stark Award, a President’s Fellowship, and the Fine Arts Gold Medal.

As a stage director, Mr. Castle has specialized in directing the plays of Edward Allan Baker, Richard Vetere, John Patrick Shanley, D. McDonald and Luigi Pirandello. Prior to founding IT New York, Castle taught video production and screenwriting at the State University of New York (SUNY), acting at UCLA and Oberlin College, and acting at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute in New York.