Carl Capotorto

Carl was a writer on Tommy, starring Edie Falco, for CBS, and is co-writing a feature film with Terence Winter for Netflix (with Christopher McQuarrie directing), based on a New Yorker article by David Grann. Carl was also a writer on The Deuce (created by David Simon and George Pelecanos) and Vinyl (from Executive Producers Mick Jagger and Martin Scorsese), both for HBO. Also for HBO, he developed an original half-hour series from Executive Producers Will Scheffer & Mark Olsen (creators of Big Love and Getting On). For Logo, he developed an original series from Executive Producer Christine Vachon, based on the rise and fall of the legendary Barneys retail empire. He is the author of Twisted Head: An Italian American Memoir (Random House, 2008), based on his solo show of the same name. His plays have been presented at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center (three seasons), Yale Repertory Theatre, the Vineyard Theater, Theater for the New City, and many other venues around the country. As an actor, Carl is best known as Little Paulie Germani on HBO's The Sopranos, and has appeared in several classic indie features, including Five Corners and Mac. He is a native New Yorker, born and raised in the Bronx, and lives in Manhattan.