Jerry Ciccoritti

Jerry Ciccoritti (born August 5, 1956) is a Canadian film, television and theatre director. His ability to work in a number of genres and for many mediums has made him one of the most successful directors in the country.

Born in Toronto, Ciccoritti became active in amateur drama in high school and was one of the founders of Buddies in Bad Times theatre in 1978 and of the Rhubarb Theatre Festival in 1979. He attended the film program at York University but dropped out to work in the burgeoning Toronto film industry.

He co-produced, co-wrote, and directed the low-budget horror film Psycho Girls (1985). Several other genre films followed, eventually leading to work in episodic television and television movies. Ciccoritti was instrumental in developing the TV series Catwalk (1992) and Straight Up (1996) and began a secondary career as a director of big-budget television movies and miniseries with Net Worth (1995), a drama about hockey player Ted Lindsay's battles with the National Hockey League on behalf of his fellow players. Another popular film of Ciccoritti's that deals with Canadian history is Trudeau. The director has also depicted the Italian-Canadian experience, with films like Boy Meets Girl (1998) and the television adaptation of Nino Ricci's Lives of the Saints. His theatrical release Blood (2004) was a well-received black comedy shot in one continuous take. More recently, in 2012, Ciccoritti co-wrote, produced and directed the feature, "The Resurrection of Tony Gitone", a comedy set in Toronto's Little Italy.

His credits include the theatrical films The Life Before This, Blood, The Resurrection of Tony Gitone, and Paris, France. Television films include The Death and Life of Nancy Eaton, Net Worth, Lives of the Saints, Shania: A Life in Eight Albums, Chasing Cain, Trudeau, and Dragon Boys. He has also directed episodic television, including Bomb Girls, Being Erica, Straight Up, ReGenesis, and King. In 2015, he directed episodes of the CBC situation comedy Schitt's Creek. In 2016, he directed the television miniseries 21 Thunder, which is expected to debut on CBC in 2017.

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