Assistant Teaching Professor of Theatre

About

  • Website

    My Personal Website
  • Office Hours

    Monday, 12:30-1:30 p.m.
  • Role

    Faculty
  • Position

    • Assistant Teaching Professor of Theatre
  • Concentration

    • Performance
  • Department

    • Theatre
  • Education

    • B.A., Rhetoric, Colorado State University
    • M.F.A., Writing for Film and Television, Emerson College

Biography

Chicago native Frank Caeti (last name rhymes with “Why Sweaty”) is an actor, writer, director, improviser, and educator. He holds a BA from THE Colorado State University and an MFA from Emerson College. Frank has taught at California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), El Camino College, The Second City Conservatory Program, and other professional training centers.

Frank was a series regular and contributing writer on FOX’s MADtv. His television credits include Modern Family, Key & Peele, Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Chicago Fire, Reno 911, NCIS, FOX NFL Sunday, and more than 35 national commercials.

Frank is an alumnus of The Second City where he performed with the National Touring Company and resident stages in Chicago and Las Vegas and has improvised at Upright Citizens Brigade, iO, and ComedySportz. His regional theater credits as an actor, writer, and director include Off-Broadway, Kennedy Center, Goodman Theatre, Kirk Douglas Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, Laguna Playhouse, and Dallas Theater Center.

As a writer, Frank has developed projects with Sony Pictures Television, written for Warner Bros. Animation, and co-created a Disney Digital web series produced by Key & Peele that was later developed for television by Sacha Baron Cohen’s Four by Two Films. More info and fun video links at www.frankcaeti.com.

First Generation Story

I'm the first person in my immediate family to go to college and pursue a life in the arts. I was raised in a blue-collar family that instilled the importance of a college education. They worked hard to give me the opportunity to come to CSU and it's a wonderful circle moment to return as a Professor.