Profiles

Giuseppe Tornatore was born May 27, 1956 in Bagheria near Palermo and developed an interest in acting and the theatre from at least the age of 16 and put on works by Luigi Pirandello and Eduardo De Filippo. He is considered …

Who is this world-renowned pizzaiolo?  None other than Tony Gemignani. What exactly is a pizzaiolo? That would be a person who makes pizzas in an official pizzeria. Recently, L’Italo-Americano interviewed Bay Area native, Tony Gemignani and he shared the story …

A wholesale bakery connected to a restaurant, the “Mead Restaurant and Bakery” built around 1910. A wall was hiding a coal-oven that measured about 15′ wide and 15 deep whose façade was covered by its original subway tiles, full of …

Italian Theatre Director and Actor Giorgio Albertazzi died Saturday in Tuscany at the age of 92. He was born in Fiesole in 1923.   On stage, often in Shakespeare’s plays, Albertazzi worked with some of Italy’s most celebrated directors, including …

Laura Caparrotti is an artist, educator, journalist, playwright, lecturer, consultant and Italian dialect coach for Boardwalk Empire,  a curator and a panelist for NYSCA, who has been working to spread the Italian culture through theater in New York since 1996. …

Roberto Benigni and Nicoletta Braschi will receive the 2016 Italian Golden Globe to honour their career. The cerimony, on its 56th edition, will be hosted on June 9th at Palazzo Farnese in Rome.   The Globo d’oro (also known as …

Jojo Capece is an artist and the author of three books, All Roads Lead to Rome (2011), Bella Figura (2013) and most recently, Portofino Souvenir (2015).  Titles like these prompted L’Italo-Americano to interview Capece about her work as an author, …

Diane Favro, Professor of Architecture and Urban Design at UCLA, as well as Associate Dean of Academic Affairs for the School of the Arts and Architecture, is one of the most prominent experts in Ancient Roman architecture. Don’t tell her …

Italian actress Stefania Sandrelli was born 5 June 1946 in Viareggio, Tuscany, and she is famous for her many roles in the commedia all’italiana from the ‘6s. She was 15 years old when she starred in the movie directed by Marcello Mastroianni, Divorzio …

Paola Maria Savoia, native of Genoa (capital of Liguria, northwestern region of Italy), directly descends from the illegitimate branch of the aristocratic Savoia lineage, which was Italy’s former Royal Family (until the introduction of the republic in 1946). About five …