Poet, playwright, teacher, composer, and director, John Mucci graduated from Carnegie-Mellon University, where twelve of his plays were performed, many of them in collaboration with his co-author, Richard Felnagle. As a writer-director for a major telecommunications corporation, he produced an historic, live, interactive, three-hour teleconference on the Shakespeare authorship question, moderated by William F. Buckley, Jr. Much of his career has been spent working in digital solutions for top agencies in the New York metro area. A noted authority on silent film, he presents classic films for schools, libraries, and institutions with his own live piano accompaniment.