Antonio Sacre

Antonio Sacre
Antonio Sacre at the 2014 Texas Book Festival.
Born	(1968-09-23) September 23, 1968 (age 48) Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Notable awards	International Reading Association Notable Books
Spouse	Missi Pyle (2000-2005) (divorced)
Children	2

Antonio Sacre (born September 23, 1968) is an American author, solo performer, and storyteller. He writes and performs internationally, in English and Spanish.

Sacre was born in Boston, Massachusetts to an Irish American mother and Cuban father. He earned a BA in English from Boston College and an MA in Theater Arts from Northwestern University.

He acted professionally in Chicago, Illinois in the 1990s and became a member of the Redmoon Theater company. He studied solo performance with Jenny Magnus and Paula Killen and he studied storytelling with Jim May and Rives Collins.

Sacre was married to actress Missi Pyle from 2000 to 2005. He married again in 2008 and has two children.

Sacre’s first children’s picture book, The Barking Mouse, was published in 2003 by Albert Whitman & Company. In 2004, it was named among the International Reading Association Notable Books for a Global Society. It was also featured on the Teaching Tolerance website.

His next children’s picture book, La Noche Buena, was published in 2010 by Abrams Books for Young Readers, and was selected for inclusion in the California Readers Book Collections for School Libraries.

A Mango in the Hand, a Story of Proverbs, another children’s picture book, was published in 2011 by Abrams Books for Young Readers and was named Parents’ Choice Approved. It was also selected for inclusion in the California Readers Book Collections for School Libraries.

Sacre’s fourth book, My Name is Cool: Stories from a Cuban-Irish-American Storyteller, was published in 2013 by Familius Books. It is a collection of stories for young adults.

Sacre is also a published poet.

As a solo performer, Sacre has written for and performed in festivals and theaters in New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, Washington D.C., San Francisco, Phoenix, and elsewhere.

He premiered The Hick, The Spic, and The Chick at The Rhinoceros Theater Festival in Chicago in 1996. The show went on to The New York International Fringe Festival where it won the Best in FringeNYC Festival Award.