Manuela Parodi – Instructor of Acting for Directors

Bilingual actress and photographer trained in San Diego, Milan and Rome, Manuela has studied with internationally renowned teachers, including Michael Margotta, Ivana Chubbuck and Mary Setrakian. 

She’s acted in several Italian and English productions – films and stage – including Davide Ferrario’s “La luna su Torino,” in competition at the Rome Film Festival, and Emiliano Galigani’s “The Imago,” winner of the Manchester Film Festival as best production. 

She is a member of the English Theatre of Rome, with which she has staged two all-female versions of Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Richard III.

She has organized seminars of film excellence (Paul Haggis, Kimberly Graham, Robert McKee, etc…), and since 2018 she has been the official interpreter and assistant to Michael Margotta.