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acting

"The actor creates with his own flesh and blood all those things which all the arts try in some way to describe."                                                                                                                                                           -Lee Strasberg

MARCO ZANELLI                                                 mzactor@gmx.com   SAG-AFTRA

Film and Television

​Rapmatazz – EMMY Award winner (William Lowell –dir.)

Rapmatazz on Drugs – nationally syndicated

Kidsfair                                                         

Ready To Go (TVSeries)

The Discovery   
The Great Commission (Charles Greene-dir.)
Outside Providence (Michael Corrente-dir.)

Code of Ethics (Dawn Radigan –dir)              

Redemption, Inc. (K. Adithya Ashok – dir)

Taken Photos (Michael Stampler-dir.)

Magic Words (Kevin Holder-dir.)

Fading (Max Cross –dir.)

Oddity (Natalie Reilly - dir.)

Promotional Spots for news and programming    

“Get Ready to Vote”  – Public service campaign      

Promotional spot - The Arsenio Hall Show 

Promotional spot - The Rick Pitino Show

Tv spot for The Loren and Wally radio show

World Series promotional spot

(lead)
(lead)
Soloist
Lead in dramatic re-enactment
David (principal v/o)
Lead vocal characterizations
Featured
Senate/House Page
Philip Latimer
The Kidknapper
Richard Blake
John
Mr. Arenson
various principal roles
(principal)
(principal)
(principal)
(principal)
(featured)

​Studio 5 Productions (ABC), Boston
Studio 5 Productions (ABC), Boston
WBZ-TV (CBS), Boston
WHDH-TV, Boston
NBC
Boston Catholic Television
Miramax Pictures
FoxPoint Films
Abandon House Films
short
short
short
short
WHDH-TV, Boston
WHDH-TV, Boston
WFSB-TV, Hartford, CT
WBZ-TV (CBS), Boston
WROR-FM/WHDH-TV, Boston
NBC

Stage (representative list)

Romeo and Juliet

Ghosts of Appomatox

The Tempest

The Big Audition                             

The Three Sisters (Mamet Adaptation)

First Annual Dragonfly Festival Of New Works

Wait Until Dark

Arsenic and Old Lace

Amadeus

A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Noises Off

A Christmas Carol

The Odd Couple

Twelfth Night

A Christmas Carol

Pasqual D’Angelo-Una Vita (in Italian)

Inner City Energy

XAX

The Challenge (touring co.)

The Game (touring co.)

Il Dono di Natale (in original Italian)

The Long Christmas Dinner

All’s Well That Ends Well

Calendar Girls

Much Ado About Nothing

The Shakespearean Tragedies

Romeo and Juliet

Resident Actor

Pyth in Love

Romeo and Juliet (in production)

Capulet
General Robert E. Lee
Alonso, King of Naples
Reginald Beresford
Solyony
"69" - The Artist (Lead)
Carlino

Dr. Einstein

Baron Van Swieten

Bottom

Tim

Scrooge

Speed

Malvolio

Jacob Marley

Narrator

Alfred Selzerman

The Assistant Official Official

(lead)

(lead)

Il Cav. Ferderico Cerenza

Young Roderick

Parolles

Rod

The Sexton

Cassius

Marcutio

Commedia stock characters

Poetry Reading and Presentation

Capulet

Riverside Theatre Works
MMAS Center for the Arts
MMAS Black Box Theatre
The Next Stage, Los Angeles
Devanaughn Theatre Company
Devanaughn Theatre Company
James Wallace Productions
James Wallace Productions
James Wallace Productions
Shakespeare Now ! Theatre Company
The Company Theatre
Fiddlehead Theatre Company
Fiddlehead Theatre Company
Fiddlehead Theatre Company
The Company Theatre
EDIAT, L'Aquila, Italy
Boston Youth Theatre
Boston Youth Theatre
Boston Youth Theatre
Boston Youth Theatre
Italian Theatre Centre, Boston
North Quincy Alumni Theatre
Walpole Footlighters Playhouse
Walpole Footlighters Playhouse

Curtain Call Theatre
Fidellhead Theatre Company
Fiddlehead Theatre Company
Pazzi Lazzi Commedia dell'Arte Troupe
Teatro Arcobaleno - Rome, Italy
MMAS Center for the Arts

Industrial Film and Video

IBM                                                      Digital Corporation                                     EMC Corporation

Met Life                                               Process Software                                         Motorola/Codex

Forum Corporation                            Beth Israel Productions                               Lotus Corporation

​Process Software                                Northern Light Productions                        International Data Group (IDG)

Stand-In

Showtime Networks       
Iridium Entertainment                                           

Hard Luck Productions                                        

Federal Hill Pictures                                             

Mr. P Productions                                               

Fox Television Network

Brotherhood (Pilot, Seasons 1,2, 3)
The Education of Charlie Banks
Hard Luck
Jesus, Mary and Joey
A Wake in Providence
Against the Law

Jason Issacs & Ethan Embry  (26 Episodes)
Jason Ritter
Utility Stand
Jason Gedrick

Mike Pagano
Steve Buscemi (1 episode)

Training

Stage:
Spiro Veloudos         Boston
Ingrid Sonnichsen     Boston
Jeannie Lindheim      Boston

Film:
Diane Salinger     Los Angeles
Gina Gallego       Los Angeles

Commercial:
Chris Game        Los Angeles
Scott Wissner     Los Angeles

Skills

experienced stand-in, fluent in Italian, translator, theatre director, former tv promotion producer/writer/editor (whdh-tv, necn-tv, progres video productions, parma, italy),  on-camera and live hosting, on-camera interviewing, college and private teaching, dialects, physical comedy,  basic stunt abilities, experence with stage flying, computers, photography, basic cooking, stick shift, own a violin (but can’t play it), basic horseback riding (english)

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