DINA MORRONE

Dina Morrone, a blue-eyed, blonde, Canadian, was born in the remote northern Ontario city of Thunder Bay, situated on the northwestern tip of Lake Superior. Dina’s Italian Immigrant parents instilled in her the importance of being bilingual. This gift would one day go on to serve her well in her professional life.

From an early age, she was encouraged by her grandfather to write and perform.  Her first time on stage was at the age of four when, along with her older sister, she sang at the Local Italian Hall Annual Christmas Party for five hundred hungry, distracted, screaming Italians. The surreal moment left her with a burning desire to be in front of an audience. After performing in numerous school plays and talent shows, Dina joined a modeling/talent agency.  This brought her briefly to New York City, where she not only fell in love with the Big Apple, but also discovered a passion for designing clothes. After graduating from the Ryerson University Fashion Design Program in Toronto, Canada, she designed clothes for local rock bands and private clients. But Dina yearned to perform and soon embarked on a successful career in front of the camera, as well as at the microphone. She landed some high profile commercials for Kodak, RCA Records, and American Express, just to name a few.

While on location in Antigua, hosting a Travel Show, she met an Italian Film Crew, who encouraged her to take her talent to Italy.  She moved to Rome and in just three month, was chosen by FORD Automobiles, Italy Division, for a National Ad campaign.  She went on to do high profile commercials for Kodak, RCA Records, and American Express to name a few. This lead to more work in Film, Theater and Voice Over. She was cast in European and Italian/American co-productions.  Dina feels very privileged to have worked with the likes of Alain Delon, Klaus Kinski, Martin Sheen, Roberto Benigni, Inna Tchourikova, Alexander Gallin, Claudia Koll, Jacques Deray, Ralph Thomas, Tinto Brass, Elvio Porta, Bruno Corbucci and Norman Jewison.

Because of Dina’s bilingual abilities, RAI Television hired her to host a number of Culturally Informative television shows which aired all over the world. Her sultry voice was used by the Italian dubbing community to re-voice well over one hundred films, narrate documentaries and animation. One of Dina’s many highlights in Rome, besides meeting Federico Fellini, was the opportunity to work with American screen and stage actress Susan Strasberg, as her personal assistant during Susan’s “Intensive Master Acting Workshops.”

Since moving to Los Angeles, Dina has been actively involved with various Theatre Groups and continues to work as an Actress, Voice Over Talent, Writer and Theatre Producer. Dina is the Voice Over Announcer of the American Cinema Editor’s ACE Eddie Awards, the MPSE Awards for Outstanding Achievement in Motion Picture Sound Editing, the CAS Awards (Cinema Audio Society) for Sound Mixing, (HPA) Hollywood Post Alliance Awards, and Vaughan International Film Festival, to name a few.

Dina was invited by the Italian Consulate Office in Los Angeles to be the Master of Ceremonies for the Italian National Holiday – Festa Nazionale Della Repubblica, the MC at UCLA’S Royce Hall for the Orchestra Italiana del Cinema, an evening dedicated to the music of the Federico Fellini’s Movies and their Composers Nino Rota and Nicola Piovani, and the MC for the International Committee of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Association at the 61st International Benefit Ball Honoring the Consulor Corps – an evening entitled ITALIA, centuries of Art and Style – held at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. The FBI LA Office invited Dina to be the Keynote Speaker for the FBI Annual Memorial. This was a great honor for Dina as the event is a solemn tribute to those Special Agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation who died in the line of duty. The event is commemorated annually at the Federal Building in Los Angeles.

Through countless short stories Dina has written over the years, she has given birth to a very entertaining and funny One Woman Show entitled, “The Italian in Me,” which had its World Premiere at the Globe Playhouse, in Los Angeles. She garnered rave reviews by critics and audiences for both her acting and writing. In June 2018 she received the Valley Theatre Award for Best One Person Show. She was also named by reviewplays.com, one of the Top Ten Best Actresses and the Los Angeles Woman’s Festival (LAWTF) presented her with the Inspiring Solo Performance Award.

The “Italian In Me,” went on to be performed at the Los Angeles Women’s Theater Festival, Marilyn Monroe Theatre, Pepperdine University in Malibu, Theatre West – WEST FEST Festival, Portraits of Humanity, a solo series festival, The Odyssey Theatre, The Italian Cultural Institute, The Feast of San Gennaro, in Hollywood, LA Women’s Club, Highways Theatre, The Santa Monica Playhouse in Santa Monica CA, The Electric Lodge in Venice, CA, The Potawatoni Casino in Milwaukee, and The Diesel Playhouse, in Toronto, Canada.

Dina’s full-length play, MOOSE ON THE LOOSE, a comedy about an Italian family and a Canadian moose, had its world premiere at Theatre West in Los Angeles, CA. The show was a smash hit with sold out shows. The show was then picked up and produced by Magnus Theatre in 2015, and Sudbury Theatre Centre STC, in 2017. Both theaters are in Ontario, Canada.

Since 2015, Dina has been the contributing editor and feature writer of The Eden Magazine and most recently she interviewed the legendary icon and artist, Gina Lollobrigida. The magazines aim is to create a better environment where we all live among other living beings in peace and harmony. It spreads compassion to all sentient beings. The magazine also supports artists whose work matches the criteria of the magazine.

Dina is a proud member of The Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television, Playwrights Guild Of Canada, Dramatists Guild Of America, Women In Theatre, Theatre West, The Producers League of Los Angeles, L’Accademia Italiana Di Cucina, Canadians Abroad, Theatre Ontario, LA Stage Alliance, SAG-AFTRA, ACTRA, AEA, Ryerson Alumni, UCLA Alumni, Beverly Hills Woman’s Club, Italian Cultural Institute, Le D.I.V.E, and currently sits on the Artistic Board of Theatre West.

JOE LOPICCOLO

Joe LoPiccolo is a guitarist and composer whose work is influenced by Classical, Jazz and World Music styles. Writer Dan O’Heron of the Pasadena Weekly states his music is “Soft spoken eloquence, fascinatingly improvised.” and “The music is comforting and visual, it takes you to a better place, a paradise found.”

Joe LoPiccolo is a graduate of The California Institute of the Arts, receiving his BFA in Jazz Guitar and his MFA in Guitar Performance. He is also a graduate of the Berklee College of Music Youth Summer Program and has taken masterclasses with guitarists Guinga, Paco Serrano and Mick Goodrick.

He is adjunct faculty at Mt. San Antonio College and College of the Canyons where he teaches World Music, Rock Music History, Group Guitar, Guitar Improvisation and Individual Guitar Instruction in both Jazz and classical genres. He has authored two texts, Guitar Mosaic and Improvisation for Guitarists and was a contributor to Andrew York’s Jazz Guitar For Classical Cats series by Alfred. Joe was a columnist for Fingerstyle Guitar Magazine, writing a column entitled “The Global Guitarist”.

He has been an ASCAP Plus Award recipient and won the Guitar Player Magazine “Reader’s Challenge” in February of 2006. Joe has Endorsement or Artist deals with Sadowsky Guitars, Evans Amps and La Bella Strings amongst others.

A proud native Washingtonian, Anise Jenkins is a two-time graduate of Howard University (BA in political science and Masters in Business Administration) and currently resides in the Shaw neighborhood in the District of Columbia.



Jenkins is the executive director of Stand Up! for Democracy in DC (Free DC).  Since its inception, Stand Up! / Free DC was the only grassroots organization in the District of Columbia focused primarily on the pursuit of statehood.  Recognizing that only through being admitted to the Union as a state, will DC residents be able to rise above the ongoing oppression by members of Congress.  This year, Stand Up!  is celebrating two decades of agitating, educating, organizing and mobilizing for DC statehood. 



Anise is passionately committed to all forms of equal civil and human rights causes.  She was named one of the 50 most influential people in Washington, DC in 2013 by The Washington Informer, received a Trailblazer Award in 2005 from the National Congress of Black Women, is a 2002 recipient of a Human Rights Community Award from the United Nations Association of the National Capital Area and is a member of DC Area Phi Beta Kappa Association.



Follow Anise Jenkins on Twitter at @MsFreeDC and Stand Up! at @StandUp_Free DC.

Rebecca S. Smuk the Motor City Medium, is an Internationally renowned and respected spiritual, empathic medium. She does readings to help those that need healing, insight and closure by connecting with loved ones on the other side. She also specializes in violent or highly volatile hauntings and helps others cleanse their homes. Rebecca is one of the very few Mediums to use the Ouija board as a conduit during one on one readings with clients or group seances. She is also a member of G.L.A.S. Paranormal which is a Detroit based team. In addition to being a Paranormal Investigator and Empathic Medium, Rebecca also has been a guest on numerous radio shows and has a very full schedule presenting at various Paranormal Conventions across the country.

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'THE PINEAPPLE THIEF'

TALKS ABOUT NEW ALBUM AND TOUR

The Pineapple Thief have launched their brand new video for “Try As I Might”, the new single from their forthcoming new studio album Dissolution. The highly anticipated follow up to 2015’s Your Wilderness, is the band’s second album to feature King Crimson and Porcupine Tree drummer Gavin Harrison.

Vocalist, songwriter and guitarist Bruce Soord explains his dystopian view “The video follows the theme of the song and the album – if you sign up to this hyper connected world we live in, then you have to live with the consequences. Try as you might to get out of it.”

The futuristic clip was created by Blacktide Phonic/Visual director George Laycock, who expands on how he created the film “When The Pineapple Thief came to me with their track ‘Try as I might’, they had a broad basis for an idea for a music video that dealt with a social media obsessed ‘connected’ world.

This had nods to previous films and television like ‘The Truman Show’, ‘Black Mirror’, the ‘Big Brother’ landscape and its preceding shows, so it was about creating a storyline using these broad influences and encapsulating into an obscure 3-minute film on a budget.

I was interested in the concept of ‘in eye cameras’, scary technology I am sure isn’t too far away from us. We decided to go down the optical medical route and follow our character on a journey from first pre-operation, to surgery, recovery and then trying to battle the decision he has made, whilst battling with the corporation he has signed up too. The film hopefully leaves the viewer to create their own conceptions on his outcome.

We filmed it all on the Dorset/Devon coastline around where I live and were fortunate to be able to secure great locations to shoot in with a few favours, including a remote seaside post-modern house, a private beach and a real working hospital and opticians.

To keep the cast down to a minimum I decided that the camera that is watching Bruce would become the main supporting actor and his nemesis, appearing in scenes without anyone operating it. This allowed us to see the cameras point of view and tell the story to the fictional viewer. This old broadcast camera weighed an absolute ton, and carrying through remote woods, down a mile-long steep cliff path to a beach was a challenge on some of the hottest days of the year. Filming in the water at the end was a welcome refreshment. 

Many thanks to all those who helped with the film, especially everyone involved at Yeovil hospital for allowing us such amazing access, and to Bruce for being so amenable about having scalpels inches from his eyeball.”

The Pineapple Thief have grown to become one of the leading lights of Europe’s experimental rock domain, Your Wilderness produced 4m+ album streams, a #7 in the UK Independent Charts and two extensive headline European tours culminating at London’s Islington Assembly Hall where the concert was recorded for the live release Where We Stood, and their new album Dissolution promises to propel the band to even greater heights.

The Pineapple Thief is a progressive rock band, started by Bruce Soord in 1999 in Somerset, England. The band has released eleven studio albums.

THE PINEAPPLE THIEF IS …

• Bruce Soord – vocals, guitars (1999–present)
• Jon Sykes – bass (2002–present)
• Steve Kitch – keyboards (2005–present)
• Gavin Harrison - drums (2016–present)

Dissolution the brand-new release by The Pineapple Thief will be released in the following formats – all available to pre-order

CD, Black LP –pressed to audiophile 180g vinyl

Limited Edition Crystal Clear LP edition – pressed to audiophile 180g vinyl

Blu-ray – features a 16-page booklet, the album plus bonus music in a 24/96 DTS-HD MA 5.1 surround sound mix and 24/96 hi-res stereo audio

Deluxe 4 disc edition – features 52 pages containing exclusive additional artwork, the original album on CD plus a second CD of bonus music, and is topped off with a DVD and Blu-ray featuring the album and bonus material in a 24/96 DTS-HD MA 5.1 surround sound mix and 24/96 hi-res stereo audio.

All digital & streaming platforms 

Available at amazon.com on August 31, 2018

The Pineapple Thief – Dissolution Tour 2018/2019

The Pineapple Thief will be taking Dissolution on the road starting in September 2018, with new dates added for March 2019. This tour includes their biggest show to date at London’s prestigious O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire – tickets are on sale now and selling fas

Sep 15 – FR – Paris – La Maroquinerie

Sep 16 – BE, Brussels-  La Madeleine

Sep 17 – DE, Bremen – Schlachthof

Sep 18 – DE, Hanover – Musikzentrum

Sep 19 – DE, Berlin – Lido

Sep 21 – PL, Warsaw – Stodola

Sep 22 – CZ, Olomouc – S-Klub

Sep 23 – CZ, Prgaue – Rock Cafè

Sep 25 – AU, Wien – Szene

Sep 26 – DE, Munich – Backstage Werk

Sep 27 – DE, Aschaffenburg-  Colos-Saal

Sep 28- DE, Cologne – Live Music Hall

Sep 29 – NL, Amsterdam – Melkweg

Oct 4 – UK, Edinburgh – Liquid Rooms

Oct 5 – UK, Sheffield – Leadmill

Oct 6 – UK, London – O2 Shepherds Bush Empire

2019

Feb 22 – IT, Roma – Largo Venue

Feb 23 – IT, Milano – Santeria Social Club

Mar 3 – DK, Copenhagen – Vega

Mar 5 – SE, Stockholm – venue tba

Mar 6 – NO, Oslo – John Dee

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