Jim Calarco is an actor and former media and drama instructor. He taught media and drama classes from 1969 to 2000. Calarco's hometown is North Bay, Ontario. He married Claire Calarco in 1969. Calarco's career began when he was working as the Artistic Director of Caruso's Dinner Theatre in North Bay in 1981 and 1982. Claire and Jim Calarco formed Pine Creek Theatre Productions in 1983, producing independent freelance theatre. Calarco was a drama consultant with the Near North School Board of Education prior to retirement in 2000.After retirement, Calarco focused his career exclusively on film and television. Calarco became a board member of Loon Film Productions and of Nipissing University's Nipissing Stage in 2007. Calarco also served as a member of the Theatrical Advisory Committee for Canadore College between 2008 and 2009. Calarco has also worked through various casting agencies to seek new talent within northern Ontario by promoting original, innovative film development as a spokesperson for the Show Us Your Shorts film competition.Jim Calarco is a member of ACTRA and the Actors' Equity Association. His most recent works include A Dark Truth, The Riverbank (also known as Tracing Iris) and One Wish. One Wish won the Mexico City International Film Festival's Golden Palm Award and the Canada International Film Festival's Award of Excellence. In 2010, Calarco established North Star Talent Agency with producer Brigitte Kingsley to better represent actors from northern Ontario. Within the same year he started Real to Reel BG Agency with Kate Adams. In 2011, Calarco started Castnorth, a film and television casting and audition agency.Calarco won the Quonta Best Actor award in 1973, and in 2008 he was inducted into the Northern Ontario Entertainers Hall of Fame. Many of Calarco’s recent shorts have been nominated for awards, some as finalists, and his movies have won many awards from international and local film festivals (awards listed below). Calarco's latest movies have been available on Super Channel (Canada), including Dark Rising 1 and 2, A Dark Truth, High Chicago, The Riverbank and The Entitled.North Bay Nugget printed in September 2013: "Calarco can now add the Northern Flicks Award — top honours in CTV Television Network Best in Shorts competition — to his list of awards from a film that put the spotlight on dementia and Alzheimer's."
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