The Company

 

Jesus A. Del Rosario, Jr. - was seen in Norman Weinstein's play Bullard as a WWI Veteran. He performed in Marjorie Edwards' play Revelations From The Deep: The Souls of Black Men as Ex-Con Rah and Arthur French III's play Bitter Apples as Ron a Business Man. He completed principal photography in the independent films The Tested as a School Security Guard, Blood Money as a Police Officer, The Slow Jam King as a Church Minister and The Menace as a
Country Fellow.

 

 

Barry Mitterhoff- is an internationally known freelance musician/teacher who performs in various musical genres.

 

Peter Linari- has done many films and Theatre productions.

Giuseppe Giannini (“Gypsy Joe”)-an Italian-American gypsy singer and multi-instrumentalist, is  skilled in dialects, folklore and folkdancing.

Ida Corvino Miletich- is an accomplished musician and performs professionally on keyboard instruments: accordion, piano and organ. Ida has taught the Italian language at all levels and holds NYS Certification at the Secondary Level. She has taught in the IACE programs at St Luke’s in Whitestone and St. Brigid’s in Westbury. A long standing community activist, Ida serves on the Board of several Italian American organizations. She is the President of the Italian American Women’s Center, Inc and Vice President of the Association of Italian American Educators. Since 2002, she has served as the Director of the AIAE scholarship program, Programma Ponte. Ida is a founding member of Friuli-Big Apple, a not-for-profit organization whose mission is to promote the culture and presence of the Region of Friuli-Venezia Giulia in the New York area.

Carmela Scala- was born and raised in Napoli, Italy and came here when she was 21. She went to school at Brooklyn College and earned a BA in Liberal Arts and Psychology; then proceeded to Hunter College for her Masters in Italian and Spanish Literature. Currently she is finishing her PhD in Comparative Literature. Her area of interest is Literature in Dialect from the Baroque to the modern age. She is an adjunct lecturer at Hunter College and St. John’s University.

Arnold Migliaccio- percussionist, is the son of the legendary comedian and singer of the Italian immigrant stage, Farfariello (Eduardo Migliaccio). As "Arnie Mig," he is also bandleader of the Serenaders in Blue, the official Glen Miller Marching Band.

Dr. Richard F. Sorrentino-Born and raised in Long Branch, New Jersey, he began playing guitar and mandolin at the age of ten, learning from his grandfather. In Florence, he studied at the University and taught English lessons to Italians.  There, he gathered together a solid repertoire of Italian folk and popular music.  In the States, he worked in country and western bands and continued to play Italian music with fellow graduate students at Rutgers University. In the early nineteen-nineties, Dr. Emelise Aleandri drafted him as a member of Frizzi e Lazzi.  Today, Richard does mixed duty as a teacher of Italian and French in New Jersey and a musician at Italian restaurants, singing Italian classics a cappella or accompanying himself on guitar. 

Anna Mancini-has worked as an actress in theatre and in film in New York and Chicago. She received her Bachelors degree in Theatre Arts from the University of Illinois at Chicago. She appeared in the Theatre Studios retrospective series on the German director Fassbinder that was being held in conjunction with the Museum of Modern Art

Nick Raio- studied Theatre at SUNY New Paltz and with Jeff Cohen in NYC. He has appeared on America's Most Wanted, Law and Order Criminal Intent, The Sopranos and One Life To Live. Film credits include festival winners such as A-Alike, which was picked up by HBO, The Fighting Irish, The Wonder, Bellclair Times and the cult favorite along with David Proval and Tony Sirico, Mob Queen. Numerous commercials have helped him pay the bills including a Mylanta commercial airing now where he's a Pizza Shop owner saying "Welcome back, Lou" and "Pepperoni" to the tune of John Sebastian's "Welcome Back". The Frizzi & Lazzi Theatre Company is a nice break from the gangsters and cops he usually plays.

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for more information contact
Emelise Aleandri, Artistic Director (212) 769 - 8920 fax (212) 769 - 2078
email: ealeandri@aol.com