Who is FRANK MARQUETTE?
HIS profile, passion and mission
Frank was born New York City but grew up in mid-town Kingston, New York. He attended Brigham School, graduated from St. Joseph’s School and Kingston High School. He attended Dutchess Community College in Poughkeepsie and the School of Visual Arts in New York City. He had a long career in graphics and marketing in the printing and newspaper industries while acting with variety of theatre companies in New York, Nevada and New Mexico. In addition, Frank has produced, written and emceed variety shows for many charitable causes. He has written and performed for resorts, hotels, historical societies and historic sites throughout the Hudson Valley.
Frank's on camera work has included national commercials for Konica, a featured role on "Unsolved Mysteries", dozens of local and regional commercials and a key role in the PBS original production, "The Greatest Man in the World". His last television appearance was on an episode of the Amazon Prime hit series, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.
As the owner-operator of Theatre on the Road and Murder Cafe, both based in the Hudson Valley, Frank, along with his wife and partner Kristen, has written and produced a number of original plays including, “Whiskey Women”, “Poe’s Last Mystery”, “Kingston: Voices from the Past”, “A Haunting at the Vanderbilt” and a dinner theater version of Dickens’ “ A Christmas Carol” which is in its 25th year. Since 2017 Frank has written and produced Mohonk Mountain House's annual Mystery Weekend.
In 2024 Frank’s troupe performed 51 murder mysteries, 12 Christmas Carols shows, 10 performances of Dracula and four cemetery tours at the Old Dutch Church in Kingston. In addition, Frank lectures regularly at Mohonk Mountain House. His topics are “Ghost Stories of the Hudson Valley” and “The Bootleg Era in the Hudson Valley”.
In 2024 Frank's memoir, The True Story of Murder: How One Family's Plunge into Mystery Dinner Theatre Made the World a Better Place, was published.
