| Marco Aponte | |
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Marco Aponte, London, 2009 |
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| Born | Marco Antonio Aponte Moreno October 26, 1966 Caracas, Venezuela |
| Occupation | Actor / Academic |
| Years active | 1997–present |
| Awards | New York Latin ACE Awards, nomination, Best Actor 2005 Huis Clos (No Exit), Theater Play |
Marco Aponte Moreno (born October 26, 1966) is a Venezuelan/French actor and academic born and raised in Caracas, Venezuela.
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Aponte's acting career started in the late 1990s in the off-off Broadway theater scene of New York City. He studied drama at the HB Studio and at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute in Manhattan.[1] Throughout his acting career he has worked with several theatre companies in New York including Park Theater (2000), Gallery Players (2000), Pulse Ensemble Theater (2001), TEBA (2003, 2004), Hudson Exploited Theatre (2004), and Ollantay (2004) among others.[2]
In 2001, Aponte founded the theater company Actors of the World with Lance Lattig. Together they worked on several shows and translations of plays. In 2002, they adapted and translated the play L'Hiver Sous La Table by Roland Topor, which was produced in 2002 at the New York International Fringe Festival under the name Winter Under the Table. They co-wrote 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 2009 they translated and produced Johnny Gavlovski's play 'La Última Sesión'. The play was presented at the Camden Fringe Festival in London under the name The Final Session. In 2010, they translated and produced the play The Ghost of Hiroshima by Gennys Pérez, also at the Camden Fringe Festival.[3]
In 2005, Aponte was nominated (in the 'Best Actor in an Ensemble' category) by the New York Latin ACE Awards for his performance of Garcin in the play Huis Clos (A Puerta Cerrada) by Jean-Paul Sartre. The ACE was awarded to the Argentine actor Emilyano Santa Cruz for his work in the play Un Quijote en Nueva York.[4]
He lives in London where he has performed in several fringe theatres such as the Questors Theatre (2006), the Blue Elephant Theatre (2007), the Lion and Unicorn Theatre (2008, 2009), Theatro Technis (2008, 2009, 2010), Camden People's Theatre (2009, 2010), and Arcola Theatre (2009).
More recently he appeared in Emily Wardill's film Gamekeepers Without Game, which premiered in London in 2010,[5] and in Martin Scorsese's Hugo, an adaptation of the book The Invention of Hugo Cabret, which premiered worldwide in November 2011.[6]
In 2011, Aponte appeared in the UK premiere of Mario Vargas Llosa's La Chunga, directed by Andy McQuade and produced by Second Skin Theatre.[7]The play is scheduled to transfer to the West End of London in 2012.[8]
He studied international business and languages in Paris, France, where he graduated from the University of Paris III Sorbonne Nouvelle in 1993. In 1995 he obtained an MBA from Nicholls State University in Thibodeaux, Louisiana. In 2008 he obtained a PhD specialising on leadership discourse analysis at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.
Since 2003 he has taught in several universities in the United States and the United Kingdom including New York University, The City University of New York, Princeton University, the University of Greenwich, the University of London, European Business School London and Aston University.[9]
In January 2009 he published the book 'Metaphors in Hugo Chávez's Political Discourse'.[10]
He currently teaches at the University of Surrey.[11]