Pasquale Esposito

Esposito is the founder and art director of the Research Company, which researches expression and communication, offers workshops in UK, Germany, Italy and produces his own theatre and film productions. In October 2016, Esposito's research company wrote, directed and performed a theatre play, A looking glass, in Munich at the Lotus Theater.

Esposito has been invited to the International Symposium on “Mindfulness and Performance” (June 2016) at the University of Huddersfield West Yorkshire, UK, to present “Zen in the Arts; expression and communication". He was also invited to the Symposium organized by Cardiff University (Nov.2016) on “Mindfulness Turn in Martial, Healing, and Performing Arts” to share his work on awareness of the nature of our own expression, an inquiry on our original self.

In 2015 he wrote, produced and directed the documentary In the right light about Kristin Engvig, founder and president of the Win Conference. The documentary was screened in London, Tokyo and Rome and was produced by his company "Art and Awareness".

Pasquale Esposito lived in Rome and Los Angeles. Currently he is living in Hamburg, Germany with his wife, Persian-German actress Julia Casper. The couple married 2015 in Africa. He has twins Kian Vincenzo Esposito and Naila Penelope Esposito.

Esposito began his acting education with different acting teachers from the Actors Studio, New York, such as Francesca De Sapio, Greta Seacat, Susan Batson and Dominique De Fazio, with whom he studied and collaborated with as his personal assistant for many years at the Studio De Fazio. Esposito completed the 4 level training system of work that Dominique De Fazio initiated in his teaching and went on to teach for 4 years at the Studio De Fazio in Italy, Germany and Los Angeles. In 2008 Esposito directed an award-winning documentary play “Seven” about 7 female protagonists through their journey to freedom, at the Global WIN Conference (Women's International Networking) an independent global women's leadership organization) in Prague.

Some of the highlights of his acting work include Hidden Children in 2004. Hidden Children is a true story directed by Leone Pompucci about forty Jewish children on their way to Palestine who were blocked by the Germans during the occupation of Yugoslavia in 1941. Pasquale played the supporting role of the Italian captain stopping the train with the children that the Germans Nazi wanted to take in Germany. The TV show won 11 awards. Esposito also appeared in La squadra – TV Series Rai Fiction, Grundy Italia Production, Center TV Rai Naples Centre Production. He also appeared in When in Rome (2010 film) – director Mark Steven Johnson produced by Touchstone Pictures and distributed by Walt Disney Studio motion pictures and a large part in Gomorrah Third season – produced by Sky Italy. In Gomorrah, which has been described as Italy's most popular TV show based on the best selling book of the same name by journalist Roberto Saviano, Esposito plays a large role. Esposito has also appeared in the TV series South Wind a Serbian Production (Juzni vjetar) written and directed by Milos Avramovic.

Esposito's acting has been influenced and guided by his Zen Buddhism practice. Esposito was officially ordained in 2001 at the Fudenji Zen Temple in Fidenza, Italy. He took the Zaike Tokudo ceremony and got his name (Pasquale Shuten Esposito) from his Zen master Fausto Taiten Guareshi.

Pasquale Esposito (born 1963 in Naples, Italy) is an Italian actor and director. His acting has been influenced and guided by his Zen Buddhism practice. He is the founder and art director of Research Company, research on art and awareness.