Vittorio Luciano Rossi was born on April 16,1961 and is a playwright, actor and screenwriter born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
11 Facts About Vittorio Rossi
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Vittorio Rossi grew up in the district of Ville Emard.
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Mr Vittorio Rossi received two consecutive Best New Play Awards at the Quebec Drama Festival in 1986 and 1987 with Little Blood Brother and Backstreets.
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Vittorio Rossi's plays have been produced in Montreal, Toronto, Ottawa, Vancouver, New York City, Boston, Syracuse and The Stratford Festival in Ontario.
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In 1987 Vittorio Rossi became playwright-in-residence at Montreal's prestigious Centaur Theatre, during which time he wrote his first full-length play, The Chain, which opened Centaur's 20th anniversary season in October 1988.
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In 2006 Vittorio Rossi debuted the beginning of what may be his most ambitious work to date, a collection of three plays inspired by the life of his late father entitled A Carpenter's Trilogy.
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Vittorio Rossi is the recipient of the 1994 Premio Award given by CIBPA in the field of Creativity for bringing honour and distinction to the Italian-Canadian community with his body of work.
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In 2003 Mr Vittorio Rossi taught screenwriting at the Universite de Sherbrooke.
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Vittorio Rossi was a co-star in Le Sphinx and acted the lead in the film Canvas starring opposite Gary Busey and John Rhys-Davies.
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Vittorio Rossi has written several screenplays and has directed film versions of both Little Blood Brother and The Chain.
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Barry is the Executive Producer of the company, and Vittorio Rossi is the Artistic Director.