Raphael Sbarge

After five successful decades working as an actor in front of the camera, Raphael Sbarge began exploring life behind the camera, adding the title of Director and producer to his resume in 2011. As an award-winning conscious creator, producer and director, the focus of many of Raphael's films and series have been about social justice, environmental justice, and under served voices.While growing up in New York City, Raphael began working on Sesame Street (1969) at the age of four. Son of Broadway costume designer, Jeannie Button, he grew up backstage, appearing in his first play at Tanglewood at the age of seven. Since Raphael's mother was also a professor at Yale Drama School, he began acting in plays at the Yale Rep starting at the age ten. His father was an artist, photographer, and documentary filmmaker, which lead to him growing up with two creative and visually-dynamic people as his role models. He acted in his first Broadway play at the young age of sixteen, opposite Faye Dunaw... [Details Intro]