Biography

Donald Franics Ferlazzo was born to mother Donna and father Salvatore Ferlazzo at Albany Medical Center in Albany, New York on March 21, 1983. Don grew up in Schodack, New York, just east of Albany, and attended private school through the fourth grade before finishing his education in the East Greenbush school district. After graduating from Columbia High School in 2001, Don went to school at Ithaca College in Ithaca, New York, where he eventually declared a major in Television-Radio and then graduated with a concentration in Scriptwriting in 2005. During college he was active in playing ice hockey and singing with Ithacappella, Ithaca College's premiere all-male a cappella group. It was also during his time at Ithaca that Don created, produced, and starred in his own puppet-based sitcom "By the Book" for ICTV, which went on to win a National Collegiate Broadcasters Award for Best Technical Production in 2004. With college graduation just weeks behind him, Don drove from New York to Los Angeles, California to pursue a dream of working in the television industry in May of 2005. After two months of unemployment, he was finally able to land a job as a Production Assistant on the ABC television series "Commander in Chief," thanks to a recommendation from Peter Lalayanis, an old college friend that he had worked beside on "By the Book." Don currently resides in Albany, New York, where he founded Albany Video Services, LLC and Hollywood Beginnings wedding videos.
- IMDb mini biography by: BFD