Playbill Biography from "The Merchant of Venice" (1973)
GASTONE ROSSILLI
A former member of the APA-Phoenix Repertory Company, Gastone Rossilli is making his debut with The Repertory Theater. He has been seen off-Broadway as Achilles in "Iphigenia in Aulis" opposite Irene Papas and at the Chelsea Theater Center as Postumus in William Golding's "The Brass Butterfly" and as Martin in W.B. Yeats' "Unicorn from the Stars." He toured the country as Hamlet in the David Merrick production of "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern," has made several appearances playing leads at Cincinnati's Playhouse in the Park and recently appeared as Lysander in "A Midsummer Night's Dream" at the Guthrie Theatre. In the Oscar-winning film "Midnight Cowboy," he and Viva played Hansel and Gretel and in a television documentary on the life of Melina Mercouri, Mr. Rossilli played Orestes to Miss Mercouri's Electra.
A former member of the APA-Phoenix Repertory Company, Gastone Rossilli is making his debut with The Repertory Theater. He has been seen off-Broadway as Achilles in "Iphigenia in Aulis" opposite Irene Papas and at the Chelsea Theater Center as Postumus in William Golding's "The Brass Butterfly" and as Martin in W.B. Yeats' "Unicorn from the Stars." He toured the country as Hamlet in the David Merrick production of "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern," has made several appearances playing leads at Cincinnati's Playhouse in the Park and recently appeared as Lysander in "A Midsummer Night's Dream" at the Guthrie Theatre. In the Oscar-winning film "Midnight Cowboy," he and Viva played Hansel and Gretel and in a television documentary on the life of Melina Mercouri, Mr. Rossilli played Orestes to Miss Mercouri's Electra.