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Ensemble
This group of professional performers (Italian-Canadian and otherwise) has been seen playing to full houses in all kinds of venues including mainstage theatres, cultural halls, festivals and even in the streets performing as ‘saltimbanchi’ (street rovers) in the
traditional Italian mask theatre style of Commedia Dell’Arte. They also lend their skills to the classroom where they pass on their knowledge and experience to students and other artists.
The individual
members are seen regularly on the Vancouver theatre stages and TV
screens For a more complete list of past work, scroll down
or send us an email (name@bellaluna.ca)!
Of course, we all
water our gardens and buy prosciutto on the weekend, so you may just
know us from ‘around’.
SUSAN
BERTOIA - Artistic Director & Performer
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SUSAN
BERTOIA
Susan
Bertoia is a Vancouver professional theatre artist and teacher. She works extensively in
movement-based theatre, physical comic theatre and mask
performance. Theatre performance credits
include: Enchanted April (Arts Club Stanley Theatre) , Dear Santa (Western
Canada Theatre), Over the River and Through the Woods (Western
Canada Theatre/Richmond Gateway) for which she received a Jessie
Nomination for Outstanding Performance by a Supporting Actress, Lagoon
of Lost Tales (Boca
Del Lupo - Stanley Park), The Last Adam (Primavera
Productions), The Faerie Play (Runaway Moon Theatre).
Recent creation/performances include: Plum and Other Colours
(BellaLuna Productions) and 'I Came to Tell' part of Da Big Womb
(La Luna Productions)
and the all-woman clown circus CIRQUE POULE. She is the recipient of
the Gordon Armstrong Theatre Artist Award. She also directs, designs
and writes scripts for children, youth and BellaLuna Productions.
Susan's fusion of physical theatre creation and esthetic make for
dynamic and unique performances.
Susan
teaches Commedia Dell'Arte and 'Creating Performance' at UBC and has
been an Artist-in-Residence at various art
institutions and schools in BC and the Yukon. Aswell as a BFA from UBC,
she has also studied Commedia Dell Arte in Italy at 'Il Piccolo Teatro
di
Milano' with Giorgio Strehler and in Padua the Tradition of Italian
mask
making with Donato Sartori. In the US she studied at the Dell’Arte
School of Physical
theatre and also participated in a physical theatre intensive with
Calgary’s One Yellow
Rabbit and
International Voice Intensive with Richard Armstrong.
Read Susan's Teaching Bio
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MARCO
SORIANO - Artistic Associate & Performer
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MARCO
SORIANO
Since obtaining his BFA from SFU in 1997 and his teaching degree in 1998, Marco has performed on stage, screen and in the classroom. He is a founding member of BellaLuna and has had the pleasure of performing in various venues across the province with this pack of crazy Italians. Most recently, you may have seen him in the titular role in Zastrozzi (Enlightenment Theatre) Bio Boxes (Theatre Replacement) for the Push and High Performance Rodeo Festivals, as the Red Queen and various others in Alice: A Wonderland (Western Canada Theatre) or as Prior in Angels in America Parts 1 & 2 (Hoarse Raven) Other favorites include: Shear Madness and Griffin and Sabine (Arts Club), You Are Here (Horseshoes and Handgrenades), The Last Stand, The Lagoon of Lost Tales and The Suicide (Boca
Del Lupo), Judas in Corpus Christi (Hoarse Raven), and the Emcee in Cabaret (DSR).
Film and TV appearances include: The Reaper, the upcoming films One Week and Impulse, DaVinci's City Hall, Too Cool for Christmas, and The L Word. You can also see him in Scary Movie 3 and as Biff Naked's sleazy, dancing, ex-boyfriend in her Leo Award winning music video "Tango Shoes".
Apart from being a Theatre Artist, Marco is also a certified teacher and a Gemini...
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LOUIS
CHIRILLO - Artistic Associate & Performer
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LOUIS
CHIRILLO
A
graduate of SFU, Louis' theatre work includes performances in Chekov's The Seagull, Sam Shepard's States of Shock, as well as
performing the one-man A
Report To An Academy by Franz Kafka. Louis has also performed
with Battery Opera (Hinndi
Finndi Hogemonay in Old Guang Zhou and Spektator), Hoarse
Raven Theatre (Tony
n' Tina's Wedding), the Burr Theatre (Spider's Web, Charley's Aunt and Harvey), Primavera
Productions (The Last Adam)
and with Rick Dobran in his Jessie award-winning play, The Best Restaurant in the World.
Ever. Louis' television credits include appearances on Cold Squad, Andromeda, DaVinci's Inquest, The Chris Isaak Show, Dark Angel, Stargate and Dead Zone. In addition, Louis is the
voice of Ken Kelley in Being Ian
on YTV.
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STEFANO
GIULIANETTI - Managing Director & Performer
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STEFANO
GIULIANETTI
Fluent in English,
Italian and French, Vancouver-born actor Stefano Giulianetti
has performed extensively in theatre, television, film and
voice-overs.
Freshly returned from a one-month Commedia Dell'Arte theatre intensive in Italy, Stefano will be touring BC in Axis Theatre's Jessie Award winning TYA show The Emperor's New Threads written and created by Peter and Melody Anderson.
His extensive touring career of late has included The Best Italian Variety Show - Ever! with BellaLuna Productions, Axis Theatre's Shalakazap!, and Kaleidoscope’s The Boy Who Learned To Fly, where he performed on Aerial Silks, juggled and grew a beard.
Theatre credits include Western
Canada Theatre's productions of Alice: A Wonderland and Dear Santa, Hoarse Raven's Tony n’ Tina’s Wedding
playing a total of nine roles over four years, a national tour with the francophone company Théâtre la
Seizième, and plays at various Festivals including Fringe,
Comedy Fest and One
Yellow Rabbit’s High Performance Rodeo in Calgary, Alberta.
Film and TV credits include the Features Hollowman 2, The Lizzie McGuire Movie and Almost
America, TV series Millennium,
Sketch
Troop (and follow-up documentary The Road to Funny), The
Collector, Ivan Reitman TV Pilot Cooking Lessons and a
myriad of TV Commercials and indie films.
He has
also garnered various credits teaching, producing and promoting theatre
and events.
Visit Stefano's
Official site
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TAMARA McCARTHY - Artistic Associate & Performer
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TAMARA McCARTHY
Tamara is not Italian. She is a professional actor, director, teacher and mother of a beautiful yellow lab/duck toller cross - adopted. Tamara has worked with Carousel Theatre, Green Thumb, Wild Excursions, La Luna, a company she co-founded and was co-Artistic Director of from 1996-2001. Tamara has a background in physical theatre and is a graduate of Simon Fraser University's Theatre program.
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PERFORMERS |
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PERFORMERS THAT HAVE PLAYED WITH BELLALUNA
Lia Como (shown), Noah
Drew, Darlene Brookes, Aaron
Freschi, Sabrina
DiFonzo, Laura DiCicco, Gerald Vanderwoude,
Beverly
Bardal, Guy Fauchon, James Crescenzo, Astrid Varnes, Joe Procyk, Kris Tung, Nathan Vass, Kerry Allchin, Shaun Aquiline and Tony Koelwyn. |
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AARON FRESCHI - Photographer
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AARON FRESCHI
Official Photographer of BellaLuna Productions, Aaron also works in Vancouver's Film industry as a set decorator. He has performed in Violins and Stage Managed various other BellaLuna shows.
Please visit the photo gallery to view some of his photographic work.
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Designers and Crews
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DESIGNERS AND CREW THAT HAVE HELPED MAKE BELLALUNA LOOK, SOUND AND FEEL GREAT
Duncan Mac, Gerald Vanderwoude, Claire Seaborn, Marijka Asbeek Brusse, Flick Harrison, Martin Ritter, Farshid Samandari, Carmen Alatorre and Ali Sohrabzadeh
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Proverb: "A Company
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