Seth Panitch is an award winning actor, writer, and director, best known for the feature films The Coming and Service to Man (Best Picture, American Black Film Festival, Tallgrass Film Festival, and DC International Film Festival). He has also performed in, written, and directed numerous productions Off Broadway, in regional theaters across the country, and in Havana, Cuba in partnership with the Cuban Ministry of Culture. His play Hell: Paradise Found is published by Broadway Play Publishing International. Seth is also a Professor of Theatre at The University of Alabama, where he heads the MFA Acting Program.
Received a Special Commendation from the Cuban Ministry of Culture for his direction of Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice at the Adolfo Llaurado Theatre in Havana, Cuba.