Ed Claudio’s theatrical career spans more than forty years as a producer, director, acting instructor, playwright, and actor. He has taught a wide range of classes over the years, including Directing, Play Analysis, Acting Theory, Theater History, Improvisation, Scene Work, Technique, and private acting classes. He has appeared in more than 150 plays and has produced and/or directed more than 70 full length plays and more than 200 one-acts throughout the United States and Europe. Ed is a  winner of the Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission Theatre Award for Arts Education, an award given in theater once every 6 years. 

As a founding member of Timothy Busfield's Fantasy Theatre for Children, he served as Artist-in-Residence for 3 years. He appeared in The B Street Theatre's first production -- Mass Appeal -- with Timothy Busfield (Four Stars from the Sacramento Bee).  Ed has also appeared in three World Premier productions at The B Street Theatre: Hidden in this Picture (starring Timothy Busfield and the play's author, Aaron Sorkin), The Virgin Weeps, by Joe DePietro, and Beneath the Moon, Beyond the Stars, by Buck Busfield. He is a member of the Screen Actor's Guild and Actors Equity.

Other highlights of Ed's local stage appearances included critically acclaimed portrayals of Joe Keller in Arthur Miller's All My Sons at The Sacramento Theatre Company and the dual lead role in Athol Fugard's Valley Song at the Foothill Theatre Company in Nevada City (Four Stars from the Sacramento Bee). His media work includes national television and radio commercials and a short independent film titled Marks. Film work also includes principal roles in the CBS Television Movies of the Week Spring Awakening and A Tangled Web.

Ed received his training from Stella Adler in New York City (1972-74) and was a candidate in the MFA Acting (1971) and Directing (1986-87) programs at Florida State University.  He has also studied with Stephen Strimpell, Tom Markus, Richard Hornby, Richard Schechner, Martin Esslin, and Herbert Berghof. Ed has had the privilege to have been directed by some of the foremost theatrical directors of our time, including Richard Schechner (he was also employed as his assistant director) and Martin Esslin. He has had lead roles in several Off-Broadway productions, including The Country Girl by Clifford Odets and William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice.