Francisco Morandi Zerpa

¡Hola! My name is Francisco and I am a Queer actor, dramaturg, Verbatim theatre maker and voice teach from Caracas, Venezuela. I grew up between Latin America and the Washington DC area and did my undergraduate actor training at NYU Tisch. My final teacher at NYU was my dear mentor and beloved playwright Anna Deavere Smith. 

I moved to New Haven from Bushwick, Brooklyn in New York City where I worked as an actor at NYTW and ArsNova, worked on seven different dialects for a festival at Lincoln Center, and taught voice and speech at schools and theatre companies from Queens all the way to the Bronx and back! My work as an educator hopes to interrogate our modern connections with language, breath and voice by engaging a technique that is anti-racist in practice and incorporates Verbatim theatrical devices in order to connect us with the unique idiolects of each human being. Delighted to be a GA at Pierson this year and looking forward to connecting with you all! I am currently in my first year at the School of Drama in the MFA Acting program.