Biography
Mike Altieri is attending one of the world's most prestigious Acting Conservatories, AADA (The American Academy of Dramatic Arts) in Hollywood aada.edu
Over the last two decades Mike has developed as an Actor, building from a great list of over two-dozen multi-dialectal monologues. He continues his Acting training in Los Angeles with Advanced Styles, Advanced Shakespeare, Advanced Voice & Speech (Multi-Dialectal), Professional Scene Study (Meisner), Improvisation, Stage Combat, Commedia dell'arte, Make-up, Audition Technique, Theatre History, Movement, and Advanced Vocal Production instruction.
As a child, Mike studied Acting at Frohman Academy in Carmel, CA, a school for acting, singing and dancing. He continued Acting training through high school and into Monterey Peninsula College earning the Nick Zanides Scholarship from Acting and Directing while at MPC.
Mike has worked with many great filmmakers over the years, resulting in an expansive network of Hollywood talents both cast and crew. He studied Film Producing, Cinematography and Lighting at AFI (American Film Institute) in Hollywood and carried on after AFI into the professional world making award-winning independent films. Mike has had many A-list mentors over the years and the most common advice has been to further cut his teeth Acting at a conservatory like The Academy.
See Mike acting on stage & in film productions at michaelaltieri.com/videoclips.html
Partial List: In 1999 he starred in the short film On Duty (2000) which won "Best Short Film" at The New York International Film Festival in 2000. He went on to star in the Toronto Student Short Film Festival's "Official Selection", Til Undeath Do Us Part (2006) in 2006. In 2007 Mike starred in Revolver (2007), "Official Selection" at the SoCal Indy Film Festival in Orange County, and "Official Selection" at Festivus Film Festival in Denver, CO.
Mike is in development and attached to star in a slate of feature length films:
Mercenary Opus (2015) and American Runaway and The Trophy Case trilogy: The Trophy Case: Judgement, The Trophy Case: Sacrifice, and The Trophy Case: Salvation.
