LARRY ARRIGALE joined Act II in 2025. He is a native of South Philadelphia and he first fell in love with theater at The Prep in the mid 1970s and has been acting and directing in the Philadelphia area ever since. He holds an M.A. in Theater from Villanova University, and later served on the Board of Directors at The Allens Lane Art Center in Mt. Airy, where he chaired the Theater Committee for many years. Larry was a founding member of the Not Ready for Afterlife Players at Laurel Hill Cemetery. And he is the proud co-author (with Tom Keels) of Philadelphia’s Golden Age of Retail, a pictorial history of Philadelphia’s lost department and specialty stores.