Marcello D'Amico
Marcello is the Artistic Director and Founder of Aeolian Players, co-founder and Artistic Director of Piccolo Teatro di Melbourne and Artistic Director of the Alabaster Theatre Company. He is a member of the City of Banyule Cultural Network, honorary coordinator of the Federation of Italian Seniors Citizens Clubs, international consultant Aeolian Museum of Italian Immigration (Malfa-Italy), founding member C.I.R.C.E.- International Centre of Research for Aeolian History and Culture (Malfa- Italy), delegate to the first International Conference on Aeolian Immigration 1999, (Aeolian Island s-Italy) and to the second Conference of "Italian Emigration and the History of the Derivative Communities", 2002 (Malfa- Italy). (Represented MAV) and delegate to the five days Congress in "Pre-history and Proto-history", 2000 (Lipari-Italy). (Represented MAV). He was an International Ambassador for Hands-On- Health and in 2003 was awarded the Centenary Medal by the Prime Minister John Howard. Marcello has performed two plays at the International Cultural Festival "Festa di Maggio" in May 1997 on the centenary of the death of Archduke Joseph of Austria (Aeolian Islands-Italy) For fourteen years Marcello has acted as co-ordinator and Special project Officer for three Italian-Australian Community based institutions. Marcello is a very competent visual artist and has had solo shows in Italy 1999,2000, 2001,2002 and June/July /August 2003 and over 50 solo and group shows in Australia. He was an international visiting artist at the Ottawa School of Arts December 2002. He is represented in private and public collections in Italy, Europe and Canada.