Carlo Bosticco

CREDITS

Carlo’s credits include "My Parsifal Conductor" (Off Broadway), the Olivier-Award winning production of “La Bohème” by company OperaUpClose (London), “From Stage to Screen and Back Again” (West End), Tremont in “Jerry Springer the Opera” (Edinburgh Festival), Pirelli in “Sweeney Todd” (Edinburgh Festival), Mercutio in “Romeo and Juliet” (Teatro Stabile di Verona, Italy), Dante in “Behind Closed Doors” (Theatre 80, NYC) and Luna in “Hedgepig Races” (The Brick, Brooklyn).

Carlo is also a writer and composer and recently performed excerpts of his upcoming musical “Chasing Icarus” with the Symphony Orchestra of Guiyang, China. He provided additional lyrics for “Travels with my Aunt” by Broadway veterans George Styles and Anthony Drewe.
On TV: Carlo Mancini in “Conquering Demons” (Bebo).



THE LONG STORY

"Carlo was born in Alba, a small city in Northern Italy, known for great wine and expensive truffles and for being the birthplace of writer Beppe Fenoglio and the Nutella chocolate.

Without knowing what Theatre was, he was putting on shows for parents and family using his He-man and She-Ra dolls to recreate the adventures of Greek gods and heroes from mythology. Since he was at it, he usually stuck a song or two in there also.

Believe it or not, it came in useful: while studying classics at the Liceo Classico G.Govone he started taking part in the theatre lab, and the second he got his way Antigone’s chorus was redirected to be a full-blown melo-logue underscored by the music of “Dead Can Dance”.

Tired of all the singing, his family sent him off to London, where he got accepted at the Italia Conti Academy of Performing Arts to study acting. They thought the English language would prove to be a somewhat welcome restraint, but fed on a diet of Oscar Wilde, Emily Bronte and Will he was soon writing plays in iambic pentameter and rhyming couplets. With songs in them.

He eventually gave in and decided to start studying musical theatre, earning a Masters degree from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (formerly RSAMD) and then, back in London, with the Associated Studios.

Since then he has worked as actor, singer and writer in all media and in many places."