Anthony Meindl

Who is Anthony Meindl?

Anthony Paul Meindl is an American screenwriter, stage actor and film actor, and is the founder and artistic director at the MetaTheatre Company and Anthony Meindl's Actor Workshop in Los Angeles, California. The workshop has since expanded to locations in New York, London, Sydney, Melbourne and Vancouver.

In the 1990s, Meindl played a genie named "Hard Hat Harry" in a number of videos and DVDs aimed at introducing youngsters to trucks, cars, construction vehicles, and the like.

He worked and lived in New York in the early 1990s and moved to Los Angeles in 1997. He has been in many commercials for products and companies including Diet Coke, Philips Electronics, Bank of America, Nissan, Michelob Lite, Sears, Acura, Del Taco, Mervyns, and Behr Paint.

He has also appeared in non-Broadway stage productions of Titus Andronicus, Merrily We Roll Along, and the LA Weekly Award-nominated Cabaret.

He is openly gay. His film credits are almost exclusively gay-related, including the 1997 gay-themed drama David Searching, the 1998 gay-themed drama Minor Details, and the 2000 gay-themed comedy/drama Get Your Stuff. His latest film role was in the 2005 mystery comedy Death of a Saleswoman.