All For The Arts NYC is headed by Alain G. Cloarec. A graduate of NYU Film School and the Lee Strasberg Institute, Alain also studied acting with José Quintero at Columbia University and attended the Anthony Hopkins seminar at HB Studio. He went back to school and received a Masters of Arts in Theatre History, Theory and Criticism from Hunter College, and an MFA in Creative Writing/Playwriting from Queens College.

Alain started out as actor in Off-Off Broadway plays and no-budget independent films before working in film production and commercials. His first low-budget independent feature film as actor/writer/producer/director, The Golden Ram, was totally self-financed using fifteen credit cards (one of which was his mother’s…) and produced over a period of five and half years. The film was screened at Italy’s MYSTFEST International Mystery Film Festival and won a Diamond Award at the 2010 California Film Awards.

Alain's short film, 1st Session, was screened in 2012 at the Carmel Art and Film Festival, the California Riverside International Film Festival, the Improvised Film Festival in Australia and the New York City Tiny Lights Film Festival. The film also screened in 2013 at the Golden Egg Film Festival in NYC and the Yonkers Film Festival. In 2014 1st Session was screened at the Davis Film Festival in California and the VOB Film Festival in Brewster, NY. In 2015 the film was screened at the Windsor Independent Film Festival in California and won the Award of Excellence in Filmmaking at the Canada International Film Festival in Vancouver. 1st Session was also accepted at the Miami Independent Film Festival, the Shorts Up Film Festival in London, and in 2016 at the Frames Film Festival in India and the Texas Ultimate Shorts Festival. 

In 2012 his short play, Thespis, (a musical romp about the first actor in the Western World) was produced at The Factory NYC. In 2013, his absurdist short play, Nothing Could Surprise Me Now, was also produced at The Factory NYC and in London by Encompass Productions in June and July 2015.

Alain is the recipient of the 2013 National Amy and Eric Burger Best Essay on Theatre Competition for his paper: “The Mercury Theatre – No Method, Just Glorious Madness,” and his article on Japanese Theatre director Oriza Hirata's Android/Robot Human Theater was recently published in Puppetry International Magazine. He was also one of the main translators of the massive 769 page International Puppetry Encyclopedia. Alain has written short and full-length plays and screenplays in both English and French. His detective thriller script, The Blind Spot, was a finalist in the 2014 San Pedro International Film Festival in California, the 2015 Colortape Film Festival in Australia, the Oaxaca Film Festival in Mexico, and won third prize at the 2015 Las Vegas Film Festival. In 2018, the screenplay won "Best Unproduced Screenplay" at the Catharsis Film Festival in Belgium. Two of his short plays, Thespis and Moroccan Sardines have been published by the Olivetree Review (pages 16 & 107).

Alain was an acting, screenwriting and independent filmmaking instructor for several years at the non-profit organization Film/Video Arts; an adjunct acting instructor at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts; and recently taught his Screenwriting Workshop at Queens College as a guest lecturer. In 2014 Alain was invited to Oslo where he taught a three week scene analysis and sense memory workshop at the Norwegian Acting Institute – Norsk Skuespillerinstitutt (NSKI) – Norway’s only Method Acting school. 

Alain plans to produce and direct his next low-budget independent feature as well as collaborate on the production of other film and theatre projects. 

You can check out more about The Golden Ram and 1st Session and more at "Alain's Stuff" page.