Giorgio hails from...wait, where does he hail from? This is a question he
has always struggled to answer, but as it turns out, his transient childhood
has certainly shaped him. He was born in Palermo, Italy, which is perhaps
the one place he truly feels at home, but had a more-than-slightly nomadic
childhood. The son of American diplomats, he spent his formative years in
the Persian Gulf and West Africa. He attended high school at the Taft
School, a boarding school in Watertown, Connecticut, where a seemingly
random choice to audition for a comic-strip-turned-play set his artistic
wheels in motion: Li’l Abner is fully to blame for his early obsession with
the craft.
He went to the University of Virginia and received his BA in theater after a
four-year marathon of productions at UVA and Live Arts, Charlottesville's
prize regional theater. He immediately pursued his MFA at the University of
Missouri-Kansas City's Professional Actor Training Program under the
stewardship of Dale AJ Rose. There he spent three years studying
Shakespeare, Linklater voice technique, Commedia dell'Arte, and stage
combat.
Giorgio is honored that his New York debut was with the Keen Company
in the New York premier of Theophilus North, Michael Burnett’s adaptation
of Thornton Wilder’s final novel, in which he played the title role under the
direction of Artistic Director Carl Forsman. He worked at the Cincinnati
Playhouse in the Park in the world premier of Alain Bailey’s Smoke on the
Mountain: The Homecoming. He then performed at the Pioneer Theater in
the premier of Artistic Director Charles Morey’s play The Yellow Leaf,
directed by the Alabama Shakespeare Festival’s Artistic Director Geoffrey
Sherman. He returns to the New York stage in July at the Samuel French
Festival in Eric Fallen's The Monster, under the direction of Eric Michael
Gillett.
Giorgio thanks his family for their guidance and endless support. And
to the Muses, he is forever in your debt; continue to inspire, for he
knows no greater sense of fulfillment than chasing his wild dreams.
has always struggled to answer, but as it turns out, his transient childhood
has certainly shaped him. He was born in Palermo, Italy, which is perhaps
the one place he truly feels at home, but had a more-than-slightly nomadic
childhood. The son of American diplomats, he spent his formative years in
the Persian Gulf and West Africa. He attended high school at the Taft
School, a boarding school in Watertown, Connecticut, where a seemingly
random choice to audition for a comic-strip-turned-play set his artistic
wheels in motion: Li’l Abner is fully to blame for his early obsession with
the craft.
He went to the University of Virginia and received his BA in theater after a
four-year marathon of productions at UVA and Live Arts, Charlottesville's
prize regional theater. He immediately pursued his MFA at the University of
Missouri-Kansas City's Professional Actor Training Program under the
stewardship of Dale AJ Rose. There he spent three years studying
Shakespeare, Linklater voice technique, Commedia dell'Arte, and stage
combat.
Giorgio is honored that his New York debut was with the Keen Company
in the New York premier of Theophilus North, Michael Burnett’s adaptation
of Thornton Wilder’s final novel, in which he played the title role under the
direction of Artistic Director Carl Forsman. He worked at the Cincinnati
Playhouse in the Park in the world premier of Alain Bailey’s Smoke on the
Mountain: The Homecoming. He then performed at the Pioneer Theater in
the premier of Artistic Director Charles Morey’s play The Yellow Leaf,
directed by the Alabama Shakespeare Festival’s Artistic Director Geoffrey
Sherman. He returns to the New York stage in July at the Samuel French
Festival in Eric Fallen's The Monster, under the direction of Eric Michael
Gillett.
Giorgio thanks his family for their guidance and endless support. And
to the Muses, he is forever in your debt; continue to inspire, for he
knows no greater sense of fulfillment than chasing his wild dreams.
