Antonio Edwards Suarez

Antonio Edwards Suarez (he/him) is an award winning writer, award nominated actor and for over twenty years has taught Acting at the Graduate and undergraduate level, as well as private coaching.  He is also a certified Lucid Body teacher and has been including this work in various aspects of his teaching for the last decade.   Antonio teaches at Brooklyn College (MFA program) and The American Academy of Dramatic Art.  He has taught at Princeton (master classes), Marymount Manhattan College, Hunter College, City College, Cincinnati Playhouse, and Commonwealth Shakespeare Company in Boston. In the summers he co-teaches Lucid Body Scene Study with Lucid Body founder Fay Simpson at The Lucid Body House. 

His acting credits include American Buffalo, Chaucer in Rome on Broadway.  

Antonio’s off b’way credits include Drinks with Dead Poets, Entertaining Mr. Sloane, The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Dogg’s Hamlet, Cahoot’s Macbeth and The Trial (Phoenix Theatre Ensemble); This One Girl’s Story (New York Musical Theatre Festival); Points of Departure (INTAR); Richard III (National Black Theatre); Food Acts (Lions Theatre); The Hamlet Project (Mac Wellman Theater); Waiting for Godot (Chashama). 

His regional/International credits include Antonio’s Song/I Was Dreaming of a Son at The Goodman Theater- Chicago (Jeff Award nominated); Milwaukee Repertory Theater; and Contemporary American Theater Festival-West Virginia);  Leandro in the international tour of The King Stag; The Night is a Child (Milwaukee Rep); A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Taming of the Shrew, The Tempest, Julius Caesar (Commonwealth Shakespeare Company);  Havana is Waiting (Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park);  Spinning into Butter (Repertory Theatre of St. Louis);  Idiots Karamazov (American Repertory Theater).

Antonio also has been seen in various roles on NBC, CBS, USA Network, HBO.

MFA: MXAT/Harvard

Resident Artist of The Phoenix Theatre Ensemble

Member of The Actors Center

SAG/AFTRA

AEA