About Piero D.
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Experience
Life Coach.
Feb, 2007 - PresentPrivate Studio
Specialize in: Creative Coaching, Career and Professional Image, Relationships, Addictions, Happiness and Spirituality. I like to provide value and I love to transform people's lives.
Director of A One Woman Show.
Jul, 2003 - Aug, 2003THE FRINGE, at Edinburgh, Scotland.
Co-founder and Artistic Director
Sep, 1998 - Oct, 2000S.T.A.R. Sinai Teens Art Resource at Mount Sinai Adolescent Health Center. NYC.
Along with Co-founder Dr. Cydelle Berlin, we would tour inner city schools. Educational material written by both me and the teens and directed by me. Topic covered: Aids, drugs, peer pressure, etc. Non profit.
Creator of © The Character Preference Technique Series.
Jun, 1998 - PresentPrivate Studio
© Character Preference™ Definition: A character’s style of thinking & behaving that chooses certain actions over others. Character Expression℠ Definition: The actions that the actor manifests through artistic execution in the body & phrasing to create the character’s essence, emotional life & inner rhythm; expressed in preference & brought to life in performance. Destructive Preference℠ Definition: The character’s Pathology soul suffering. The origin of their suffering will empower them or destroy them in the journey of the script. The actions the character plays are ruled by their suffering; evoking recognition, feelings of happiness, pity, rage or sympathy in the audience. Overcoming their soul’s suffering becomes one of their major obstacles. Writers Preference℠ Definition: Binds the Preference Model, giving the writer new insights and an extra dimension in creating characters; compelling dialogue, action and behavior, must be injected into each character without interference from the writer's natural preference. The result will be character's with strong distinct voices and preference's.
Artistic Director
Sep, 1996 - Dec, 2005Private Studio
Taught On-Camera, Cold Reading, Teens, Commercials, Agent Showcases, Meisner, Adler, Stanislavsky. Method and Character Preference Techniques.
Acting Coach.
Feb, 1991 - PresentPrivate Studio
Coaching for auditions, agent/manager interviews, monologues and scenes for college admissions, screen-tests and on-location.
Owner
Jan, 1991 - Dec, 1993Multinational Casting. NYC.
A casting office for actors with foreign languages skills in movie and television for visiting production companies shooting in the U.S.
Founder/Artistic Director
May, 1990 - Sep, 1995The New York Italian Theatre Company, NYC.
A non-profit theatre company dedicated to producing works of Italian and Italian-American playwrights in both Italian and English. I directed numerous plays, including works by Dario Fo, Richard Vetere and Luigi Pirandello.
Founder/Artistic Director
Jun, 1988 - Aug, 2005The Duality Playhouse. NYC.
Directed numerous plays. From John Patrick Shanley to David Mamet to Chekov.
Acting Teacher
Mar, 1985 - Aug, 1995The Piero Dusa Acting Studio, NYC.
Actor
Jan, 1978 - Aug, 1992New York City.
Industrial and billboard model. Performed in numerous national commercials, soap operas, television shows and films.
Education
MEISNER, ADLER, STANISLAVSKI and METHOD ACTING.
Jan, 1981 - Dec, 1985Sanford Meisner, William Alderson, Stella Adler and Mikhail Tsoglin.
Film Production.
Jan, 1993 - Dec, 1993New York University.
Certifications
Fitness Instructor Certification.
Jan, 1989Marymount Manhattan College.
A certification in fitness and nutrition.
Herman Brain Dominance Model.
Jul, 1998Herrmann International. San Francisco.
A course on how our internal preference, thinking style and personality makes choices and how individual’s style of thinking & behaving chooses certain actions over others.
Awards
First Prize Winner: Screenplay.
Aug, 2002The Hollywood Film Festival Screenplay Discovery Awards 2002 for Best Screenplay.
Affiliations
Screen Actors Guild/American Federation of Television and Radio Artists
Feb, 1986An American labor union representing over 160,000 film and television principal and background performers, journalists, and radio personalities worldwide.
Actors' Equity Association
Jun, 1988Actors' Equity Association, founded in 1913, is the labor union that represents more than 49,000 Actors and Stage Managers in the United States. Equity seeks to advance, promote and foster the art of live theatre as an essential component of our society.
Languages
English
Native Proficiency
Italian
Native Proficiency
Spanish
Professional Proficiency
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