Narrator / Free Family Concert 8.3.08

"One of the finest actors and all around theatre people I have ever known." —Libby Appel, Artistic Director, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Ashland

Marco Barricelli will narrate the Cabrillo Festival's West Coast Premiere of Michael Daugherty's Troyjam.

Recently appointed Artistic Director of Shakespeare Santa Cruz, Marco Barricelli begins his first season with SSC this summer. Originally from Boston, Massachusetts, Barricelli is a graduate of The Juilliard School and has been an actor, director and educator since 1982, honing his craft in Shakespearean performance as well as classic and modern works. He spent eight seasons with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival as an actor. From 1997 to 2005, he was an Associate Artist at the American Conservatory Theatre (A.C.T.) in San Francisco, acting, directing, and teaching in the Master of Fine Arts program. Teaching has also taken him abroad working with the Accademia Silvio D’Amico in Rome and the Prima del teatro in Tuscany.

Barricelli's theatrical roles include Richard III, Richard III (Missouri Rep, OSF); Cyrano, Cyrano de Bergerac (OSF); Valmont, Les Liaisons Dangereuses (A.C.T.); Stanley, A Streetcar Named Desire (A.C.T., Utah Shakes); Oscar Wilde, The Invention of Love (A.C.T.); Antony, Julius Caesar (Missouri Rep, Illinois Shakes); Benedick, Much Ado About Nothing (Indiana Rep); Mangiacavallo, The Rose Tattoo (A.C.T.); Leicester, Mary Stuart (A.C.T., Huntington Theatre Co.); Roma, Glengarry Glen Ross (A.C.T.); Petruchio,The Taming of the Shrew (South Coast Rep, Intiman Theatre); Teach, American Buffalo (A.C.T.); Heathcliff, Wuthering Heights (Actors Theatre of Louisville); Hamlet, Hamlet (OSF); Hap, Death of A Salesman (Arizona Theatre Company); Cornwall, King Lear (Cal Shakes, Utah Shakes.)

Marco Barricelli's awards inlude Bay Area Theatre Critic's Circle (The Real Thing, American Buffalo, The Invention of Love, Glengarry Glen Ross); Dean Goodman Award (Enrico IV, American Buffalo, The Invention of Love, Glengarry Glen Ross, Streetcar Named Desire, The Rose Tattoo, A.C.T.); DramaLouge Award (The Rose Tattoo, The Invention of Love, A.C.T.) He is a Fox Fellow and recipient of a Spencer Cherashore grant and a L.J. Skaggs research grant.