Marco Aponte
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Marco Aponte Moreno (b. October, 26, 1966) is a Venezuelan/French theater actor, playwright and translator born and raised in Caracas, Venezuela.
He studied foreign languages in Paris, France, where he graduated from the University of Paris III Sorbonne Nouvelle in 1993. He studied theater at the HB Studio in New York City from 1997 until 2003.
In 2001 he founded the theater company Actors of the World with Lance Lattig. In 2002 Aponte and Lattig adapted and translated the play L'Hiver Sous La Table by Roland Topor. The play was produced in 2002 at the New York International Fringe Festival under the name Winter Under the Table. He co-wrote (with Lattig) the play Manhatitlán, which in 2003 also opened at the New York International Fringe Festival. The play is based on Simone Schartz-Bart's play Ton Beau Capitaine.
In 2005 he was nominated for an ACE Award for his performance of Garcin in a production of his own Spanish translation of the play Huis Clos (A Puerta Cerrada) by Jean-Paul Sartre.
In 2006 he moved to London where he became a member of the Questors Theatre's acting company. He now lives in New York City and teaches at Princeton University.
