TONY SPIRIDAKIS (Screenplay) is an award-winning director, writer, actor, and producer in film, television, and theatre, known for writing exceptional roles for actors. In addition to Ezra, his film work includes Queens Logic, which he wrote, produced, and co-starred in with Kevin Bacon, Jamie Lee Curtis, and John Malkovich. He has developed scripts for Dustin Hoffman, Richard Dreyfus, and Diane Keaton as well as for iconic producers such as Laura Ziskin, Stacey Snider, and Mary Parent. Other films include: Tinseltown, based on his play Self Storage, starring Ron Perlman and Joe Pantoliano; Noise, starring Ally Sheedy and John Slattery; and If Lucy Fell, starring Sarah Jessica Parker and Ben Stiller. He also adapted, produced, and directed the film version of his play The Last Word, starring Timothy Hutton; and the post-9/11 drama, Ash Tuesday, with Giancarlo Esposito and Janeane Garofalo, won several top screenwriting honors.
Projects in pre-production include Breath of Life, a true story about the mayor of an Italian village during WWII, and Mike’s Place, the story of a blues bar in Tel Aviv during the Second Intifada that survived the devastation of a suicide bombing.
Spiridakis’s television credits include: co-creating and producing The Heights with Academy Award-winning screenwriter Eric Roth, the CBS crime drama Falcone with Academy Award-winning screenwriter Bob Moresco, and the Netflix legal drama Justice for Emmy-winning writer Bill Finkelstein. He is a writer and consulting producer on Earth Abides, the forthcoming MGM+ series based on the 1949 sci-fi novel by George R. Stewart.
Spiridakis studied at the Yale School of Drama and has also acted in dozens of films and television series, including House, L.A. Law, The Equalizer, Bay City Blues, and Death Wish. He is also a co-founder of the Manhattan Film Institute, an intensive workshop for emerging filmmakers; a strong advocate for autism awareness; and Founder and Board Chair of North Fork Arts Center (NFAC), a non-profit cinema and live performance venue located in Greenport, New York.
