Angelo Zuccolo

Angelo Zuccolo, 72, actor, stage director, published poet, and professor emeritus of theatre took his final earthly curtain call on May 15, 2013. He is survived by daughters Angelique and Marielle. He was greeted in heaven by his parents Edith and Angelo, beloved dog Nikki, and an elite cast of family and friends. Angelo was born into a family of actors, poets, sculptors, painters and singers! Within this context, the enchantment and romance of a world filled with sensory, sensuous and sensual poetry were present from sunrise to sunset. His insights into the flavor and spice of the human heart simmered with the delicate aroma of love both found and often lost. He performed in stage, film and television in the United States and abroad, including the title role in James Joyce’s Finnegan’s Wake at the prestigious Holland Festival in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and Ligurio in Machiavelli’s The Mandrake, at Norway’s Fana Festival.

He directed over 300 stage and media productions, served as artistic director of the renowned Leonard Melfi Repertory Theatre, and was the author of myriad playscripts and teleplays. His collection of Italian-American short stories, Remember! We Come From Good Stock, was received with acclaim both in the United States and in Italy, and his trilogy of romantic poetry received national applause for its insights into the caring human heart.

Calling hours will be held on Sunday from 5pm to 8pm at the James V. DeMarco & Son Funeral Home, 737 Chenango Street, Port Dickinson, NY. Services will be held at Unitarian Universalist Church on 183 Riverside Drive, Binghamton, NY, on Monday at 11am, with prior viewing beginning at 9:30am. Internment at Riverhurst Cemetery to immediately follow.

Contributions to the Angelo Zuccolo scholarship, for excellence in theatre may be made to Broome Community College Foundation. In lieu of flowers, Angelo’s desire was for friends and family to celebrate his life with dinner at one’s favorite Italian restaurant in the company of someone special, someone lonely, someone in need. Angelo lived and performed with all his heart. In one of the finest of theatre traditions, he is now in the company of countless co-stars, appearing onstage and in the midnight sky with applause of eternity.