Background
He grew up in the district of Ville Emard.
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The drama of Little Blood Brother unfolds around the suspected homosexuality of a buddy. In Backstreets, we see Animal, Moose and Nero come to terms with the death of a friend. In each of these plays, Rossi provides us with something beyond the obvious, moments as unpredictable as they are memorable. With a deep understanding of human nature--in particular, the nature of the young macho men portrayed here--Rossi finds the comic element in life's small moments. Little Blood Brother and Backstreets respectively took top honours at the Qubec Drama Festivals in 1986 and 1987, winning Rossi notoriety among theatre critics and a job as Centaur Theatre's playwright-in-residence for 1988. Both plays were produced Off-off Broadway at the Willow Cabin Theatre in the Fall of 1989. Little Blood Brother was remounted in a special showcase production at the El Trocadero in Greenwich Village in May 1990.
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The most anticipated play of Centaur Theatre's 1990 season, Scarpone is set in a fashionable Montreal shoe shop, where the proud and legendary salesman, Stan, is about to go into early retirement. The jealousies and resentments among the all-male staff are brought to a boiling point when the company sends a female supervisor to oversee the transition. Caught in the mean tangle of greed and ambition are the innocent customers who are in desperate need of attention.
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He grew up in the district of Ville Emard.
Graduating from Concordia University in 1985 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts specializing in theatre performance, Rossi has earned the respect of the national theatre community with his award winning plays.
Mr. Rossi stormed the Montréal theatre scene with two consecutive Best New Play Awards at the Quebec Drama Festival in 1986 and 1987. His plays have been produced in Montreal, Toronto, Ottawa, Vancouver, New York City, Boston, Syracuse and The Stratford Festival in Ontario. Vittorio Rossi is widely considered to be the inaugural Italian-Canadian voice on the English-Canadian stage.
In 1987 Rossi became playwright-in-residence at Montreal’s prestigious Centaur Theatre, during which time he wrote his first full length play, The Chain, which opened Centaur’s 20th anniversary season in October 1988.
The show was then produced at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa. His latest play The Envelope had its World Premiere in March 2014, a production which he also directed.
This marked his landmark 10th production at The Centaur Theatre. Rossi was Writer-in-Residence at Concordia University in 1990-1991 where he also taught playwriting.
He is also the recipient of the 1994 Premio Award given by CIBPA (Canadian Italian Business Professionals Association) in the field of Creativity for bringing honour and distinction to the Italian-Canadian community with his body of work.
In 2003 Mr. Rossi taught screenwriting at the Université de Sherbrooke. As an actor, Rossi appeared as a regular as Dino Marrone on Urban Angel and as Detective Tom Celano in the award-winning French-language television series Omertá.
Rossi was also a co-star in Le Sphinx and acted the lead in the film Canvas starring opposite Gary Busey and John Rhys-Davies.
He also co-starred in the feature film The Timekeeper. In his most recent work, he appeared in The Walk directed by Robert Zemeckis. He has written several screenplays and has directed a film version of Little Blood Brother.
His plays are published by TalonBooks.
(The most anticipated play of Centaur Theatre's 1990 seaso...)
(The drama of Little Blood Brother unfolds around the susp...)