“Marcello Rollando returns to the Greater Washington DC area after a 30 year New York career on NBC & ABC soap operas, most notably in the role of “Franco” on NBC’s “Another World”. To return to the Theatre (his first love) is a great joy, and on the stage of The Shakespeare Theatre, pure ecstasy.”
Well that's what the bio read, but I miss New York and National Television still makes my heart go pitter-pat. In my long East Coast Directing & Acting experience, I helped launch many careers, as I specialized in discovering, developing, directing and showcasing new playwrights, new plays and new performing talent. Also, I owned and operated the New Show People -- a Video Production Company which marketed Actors, Models, Singers, Dancers, to Casting Dirs., Agents, Managers, Directors & Producers -- with great success, and while in NYC, playing FRANCO on NBC's "Another World," I was often engaged as an Advocate/Speaker, Host/VO/Narrator, Guest Artist, Director, Casting Associate, Producer, Radio Personality and Acting Coach for members of the Philadelphia Opera Company and their student master classes.
Now it's Independent Filmmakers, Documentary Producers and Theatre Groups for me, for in troubling times like these, it is the artist who must challenge us to THINK, who must re-ignite our DREAMS, who must inspire us to...
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