Santo Cilauro

Background

Cilauro was born in 1961 in Melbourne, Australia to parents of Italian descent.

Career

He was a law student at Melbourne University in the early 1980s. Cilauro started collaborating with Rob Sitch and Tom Gleisner in comedy theatre productions and tours. One of the co-founders of The Doctorate-Generation,

Cilauro wrote for, and performed in, the troupe"s show during its 1986-1987 run on American Broadcasting Company television (which also led to the album The Satanic Sketches).

Cilauro was a writer/performer on the Doctorate-Generation"s 1992–1993 sketch comedy The Late Show, appearing on such segments as Graham & the Colonel, The Oz Brothers and Jeff & Terry Bailey.

After the second and last season of The Late Show, Cilauro starred as Stix in the 1994 American Broadcasting Company cop show satire Funky Squad, which he also co-created and served as one of the writer/producer/directors. He went on to help set up the Working Dog production company and was one of the writer/producer/directors of Frontline (1994-1997), in which he also had a recurring onscreen role as weatherman Geoffrey Salter.

Since then, Cilauro co-wrote Working Dog"s films popular film The Castle (1997) and The Dish (2000) and appeared as a regular member (and occasional host) of the 1998–2003 Network Ten programme The Panel. Cilauro has been an executive producer of several Working Dog productions, including The Panel, A River Somewhere (1997-1998), and All Aussie Adventures (2001-2002).

He played the Head of Market Research, Theo Tsolakis, on The Hollowmen (2008), a series which Cilauro co-wrote and co-produced.

Cilauro also played Information Technology technician Griffin on the Shaun Micallef sitcom Welcher & Welcher (2003) and K2 on the 1996 Working Dog radio sketch Johnny Swank. live from Melbourne alongside Editor Kavalee and Sam Pang. In 2014 Cilauro joined his Working Dog colleagues, Sitch and Gleisner to stage the group"s first play, The Speechmaker. Cilauro was, with Rob Sitch and Tom Gleisner, co-author of the Jetlag Travel Guides to Molvanîa, Phaic Tăn and San Sombrèro.

He also created the popular Internet phenomenon character Zladko "ZLAD!" Vladcik, a Molvanîan popular idol style musician.

As a passionate Collingwood supporter, he often name-dropped the club in his sketches. He wrote a chapter of the Collingwood supporter"s book, "The Barrackers Are Shouting".

Achievements

• Known as the weatherman in Frontline, he is also an author and former radio presenter on the Triple M Network, and achieved worldwide fame with the viral video Elektronik Supersonik. During the 2010 Fédération internationale de football association World Cup, he hosted a nightly comedy/variety show called Santo, Sam and Editor"s Cup Fever!.

Membership

Cilauro continued as a member of the Doctorate-General when the team hosted their Breakfast Show on Triple M radio (1986–1992), appearing as the simple-minded "Wayne from Saint Albans" and "Gino Tagliatoni" amongst other roles.