Biography

Donald Rizzo is a Los Angeles-based actor and teaching artist from New York. Film credits include Let Go opposite Kevin Hart; Choke opposite Sam Rockwell & Clark Gregg (Best Ensemble Cast award at the Sundance Film Festival); Park Sharks (Official selection: Dances with Films); and Me, You, and a Mushroom (Screening at the Cannes Film Festival and premiere at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival). Stage credits include Tape (Hollywood Fringe, nominated for a LADCC Award); Moving Arts Car Plays: The Love of Make Believe (the WOW Festival at La Jolla Playhouse and R.E.D.C.A.T. with RADAR LA). Donald is a graduate of the Atlantic Theater Company’s two-year acting conservatory and studied character-based improv and sketch at the Groundlings. As a teaching artist, Donald has developed and taught lesson plans to high school theater students at his alma mater, Herricks High School, and at Grand Arts School of Visual and Performing Arts in downtown Los Angeles. Donald is a graduate of UCLA, where he received his BA in American Literature & Culture, along with a minor in Visual and Performing Arts Education. He is currently a Candidate for the MFA in Television, Film, and Theatre: Acting, at California State University, Los Angeles (CSULA), where he currently teaches Acting I to Undergraduates, as a Teaching Associate.
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