Improvisor
Orlando, Florida Area
- Past
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- Actor at Troikastar, LLC
- Producer at Mark Baratelli Productions
- Designer at Orlando Fringe
- Actor at National Tour: I Love a Piano
- Social Network Manager at Orlando Fringe
- Creative at Mindcomet.com
- Education
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- Portfolio Center
- Florida State University
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Mark Baratelli’s Summary
I am an improvisor who makes funny stuff online.
Mark Baratelli’s Specialties:
Improvisation, comedy, writing, brainstorming
Mark Baratelli’s Experience
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Actor
Troikastar, LLC
(Entertainment industry)
October 2008 — May 2009 (8 months)
King Herod in the National Tour of Jesus Christ Superstar. November 2008 thru May 2009. He's the guy who sings the one funny song in the entire show.
http://textingwhiledriving.blogspot.com/2009/03/reviews-mark-baratelli-as-king-herod.html -
Producer
Mark Baratelli Productions
(Entertainment industry)
May 2006 — October 2008 (2 years 6 months)
I was contracted to do creative work for companies including El Pollo Loco, Mindcomet.com, Orlando Fringe Festival and SAK Comedy Lab. This involved everything from writing short-form scripts to web design.
Mark Baratelli's Improv Cabaret is a 30-minute improvised solo cabaret act, born in 2006 thats been seen at the following invite-only festivals: Chicago Improv Festival, New York Fringe Festival, San Francisco Improv Festival, Miami Improv Festival, Charleston Comedy Festival, Dirty South improv Festival, Orlando Cabaret Festival, Santa Cruz Improv Festival
http://textingwhiledriving.blogspot.com/2009/03/improv-cabaret-long-form-solo-musical.html
The Lady Raptastic Show is an over 90-episode comedy podcast co-created by Chris Dinger. You can find her at facebook.com/ladyraptastic, twitter.com/helloplease and on itunes.
"How Do You Feel?" started as an audio podcast in 2006 then got turned into a live one-man stage show at the 2008 Orlando Fringe Festival co-created by Chris Dinger and taped for a DVD. Photos from the live show: http://www.flickr.com/photos/markbaratelli/sets/72157605351610057/detail/ -
Designer
Orlando Fringe
(Performing Arts industry)
August 2007 — August 2008 (1 year 1 month)
Design and manage the creation and maintenance of the festival's website. The site enabled over 60 shows full control to market with video, photo, audio, reviews, and links and promoted the city of Orlando to visitors with links to local hotpsot chosen by locals in the theatre community. Every year prior to 2008, the festival's producer gathered the shows' content herself via email. This year, the site allowed shows to upload their content themselves and freed up hours of the producer's time. I also set the staff photographer up on flickr (http://www.flickr.com/groups/orlandofringe/) and assisted with photo organization, enabling easy archiving, easy photo delivery to press and better sharing with patrons.
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Actor
National Tour: I Love a Piano
(Entertainment industry)
September 2007 — May 2008 (9 months)
Perform musical theatre.
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Social Network Manager
Orlando Fringe
(Performing Arts industry)
September 2006 — June 2007 (10 months)
I was hired to create and run their myspace profile but took the opportunity to show them as much as I could do. Now knowing how big twitter is, the best thing I did was set up their twitter account back then. No one was on Twitter in 2007 but geeks so I didn't do much activity. But by the time the world got on twitter in 2009, because their account was all set up, the Fringe festival had over 800 followers.
I also made a a 25-post podcast, a 250-post blog, a 10-episode Youtube show, a separate "2007 Shows" Myspace profile
Twitter Account: http://twitter.com/orlandofringe
Podcast: http://orlandofringepodcast.blogspot.com
Blog: http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.listAll&friendID=114210254&startID=271141421&StartPostedDate=2007-06-01%2008:00:00&next=1&page=1&Mytoken=E3AF4974-513E-407C-ADDC19DD0372D86480404141
Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/orlandofringecast
Myspace "Festival" profile (design & content now changed): http://www.myspace.com/orlandofringe
Myspace "Shows" profile (design & content now changed): http://www.myspace.com/07shows"> -
Creative
Mindcomet.com
(Privately Held; Marketing and Advertising industry)
June 2005 — May 2006 (1 year)
Viral Marketing Specialist:
-Brainstorm and produce online viral engagements
-Writing: scripts, lyrics, blog posts, website copy.
-Podcasting: casting v/o talent, recording, editing, producing, distributing, publicizing.
-Graphic design: blogs, websites, (no programming)
-Social Networks: design, audience outreach.
-Maintain company blog on Viral Marketing.
Idea Guy:
Turn a client RFP into a list of ideas. Repeat. Manage brainstorming sessions with outside creative talent.
Mark Baratelli’s Education
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Portfolio Center
Art Direction, Design 1998 — 2000
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Florida State University
AA , General Studies , 1993 — 1996
Additional Information
Mark Baratelli’s Websites:
Mark Baratelli’s Honors:
Webby Honorable Mention 2006: dabreakupsong.com
Big Thinker Award 2006: Awarded by Mindcomet.com
Rookie of the Year 2006: SAK Comedy Lab
Top 100 Most-Followed in Orlando on Twitter (2008)
Best Local Blog, 2nd place: The Daily City (2008)
Patron's Pick Award 2006 and 2007: Mark Baratelli's Improv Cabaret (Orlando Fringe Festival)
United Arts of Central Florida Professional Development Grant Recipient 2007: Mark Baratelli's Improv Cabaret in the New York City Fringe
