teresa pascarelli

TERESA PASCARELLI
content creator, actress and producer
Teresa Pascarelli was born in Tokyo in 1965.
She grew up between the Far East and the United States attending British and
American Schools, where she began to write and perform at an early age. Teresa
moved to Italy, her homeland, at the age of 19 and attended the National Academy of
Dramatic Arts of Rome. After a rich 10-year experience as theatre actress with major
Italian actors, she began to specialize in the creation of edutainment projects aimed at
introducing the English language to Italian kids (TV shows, live shows and workshops)
The characteristic that distinguishes her work is her Bilingual Method™, which she
has mastered throughout the years: an accurate mechanism that alternates two
languages: English and the audience’s native language. In spite of this ‘surreal’ mix,
characters understand and respond to each other as if they were all speaking just one
global language.
STREAM TV
Teresa Pascarelli has been successfully experimenting her method ever since the
first TV programs she created, wrote and produced in 1999 for STREAM TV:
- Sei un angelo? (70 x 30’ – 1999-2001) bilingual program for kids
- Cartoni Umani (36 x 30’– 2000-1) bilingual program for kids
- Smack’s (30 x 5’– 2000-2001) bilingual sitcom for kids
- Cartoni Umani II (25 x 45’ - 2001) bilingual program for kids
During STREAM’S last year of life, before it was taken over by SKY, Teresa began to
collaborate with the Italian Ministery for Education (MIUR), which experimentally used
some of her episodes of Cartoni Umani to support English language lessons in Italian
Public Elementary Schools.
RAI TV
The author later introduced her method in RAI (Italian state TV), for which she created
the main and most successful programme of ‘Divertinglese’ (Rai Educational program
schedule for Elementary Schools organized by MIUR – Ministery of Education), the
sitcom ‘Tracy e Polpetta’. Thanks to its’ immediate success, RAI shot 10 series of
Tracy & Polpetta. It has been running for 12 years.
Divertinglese – 80 x 8’ bilingual sketches for ‘il divertinglese’ - RAI Educational
(2002-05)
Tracy e Polpetta I – 58x15’ bilingual sitcom for ‘il divertinglese -RAI Edu/ RAI 3
(2002-05)
Tracy e Polpetta II –30x20’ bilingual sitcom - RAI Edu/RAI 2/RAI 3(2002-06)
(scripts of the following series were written by Teresa’s assistants)
JB PRODUCTIONS
In 2009 Pascarelli creates her own company, JB Productions, which holds the rights to
all her works and now produces most of them. In her following creation, the tween
sitcom NUTS, her method evolves and improves into the presently used Bilingual
Method. Supported by the Ministry of Education and by the Councillor in charge of
Education of Regione Lazio, NUTS was staged for 6 years in major theatres in Rome
and Milan and won pubblic financing for becoming a workshop in 13 of Rome’s low
family budget public schools. (see bando Regione Lazio)
Nuts 1st edition –episodes 1 and 2 (Teacher in The clock; Who is Maria?)
– Teatro Vittoria di Roma 2008/2009
Nuts 2nd edition – episodes 1 and 2 (Teacher in The clock; Who is Maria?)
– Teatro Vittoria di Roma 2009/2010
Nuts 3rd edition – episodes 3 and 4 (Girl Trap; Father and Son)– Teatro
Ambra Jovinelli di Roma and Teatro Nuovo di Milano (2010 / 2011).
Nuts 4th edition– episodes 5 e 6 (Help Me, Lory; Alone At Home) Teatro
Sistina di Roma e Teatro Nuovo di Milano (2011 / 2012).
Nuts 5fth edition– episodes 7 e 8 (Fitting in My Jeans; Ex Boyfriend)
Teatro Sistina di Roma and Teatro Nuovo di Milano (2012 / 2013).
Nuts 6fth edition– episodes 7 e 8 (Fitting in My Jeans; Ex Boyfriend)
Teatro Sistina di Roma and (2013 / 2014).
In 2010 JB produces the pilot episode of the tween sitcom ‘Jenny & Julio’,
which presents 3 Bilingual Method combinations: EN/IT, EN/FR, EN/DE and
2 classic versions: ALL EN and ALL IT http://vimeo.com/503565n
In 2011 JB Productions produces a NUTS TV miniseries 4 episodes entitled
NUTS, 4 matti in affitto, broadcast by Nickelodeon Italy (SKy 605 e 606)
in 2012. http://vimeo.com/49782636
Disney Italy has tried two negotiations with Teresa on her method and products
(2009 and 2012), but the author was never satisfied of the contractual terms on rights
to her IPs and method.
In 2012 Nickelodeon Italy commissions JB to create, write and conduct a
new Bilingual Method program for their pre-school channel Nick Junior (sky
603 – 604): 1,2,3… Perché? Impara l’inglese con me.
http://www.nickjr.it/video/1-2-3-perche/le-anatre/
1,2,3… Perché? 1st edition. (50 x 15’) Pre-school link & clip programme to
introduce English to the 4 – 6 age group. May 2012
2nd edition (50 x 15’) for both Nickelodeon Italia and
Nickelodeon France which brought about the first exportation of
Teresa’s Bilingual Method abroad: English/Italian and English/French.
July 2013
1,2,3 Perchè?
1,2,3… Perché? 3rd edition (20 x 15’) October 2013
4rth Edition again for both Nickelodeon Italia and
Nickelodeon France (50X 15’) Novembre 2014
1,2,3 Perchè?
FUMBLES
In 2013, JB Productions creates the concept for the cross media project
Mrs. Spelling and the Fumbles
First concept video: http://vimeo.com/59074379
In 2013 Teresa negotiated the rights and productions of fumble products with both
Kinder Ferrero chocolate eggs and DeAgostini Publishers. She was not satisfied with
the terms they offered and decided to start testing the IP with her own company by
producing live shows and workshops for schools and families.
The first Fumbles live show opened at Teatro Sistina (1500) on February 16th 2014
for families, and on March 13th for schools.
In april 2014 she began working on the Fumbles app and released it Free on IOS and
ANDROID in January 2015. (developper and producer JB Productions)
From September to Decembre 2014 she also created and produced the first 8
episodes of the Fumbles tv show, on air on Sky pay tv channel 623 DeaJunior.
BEFORE THE TV CAREER
Teresa worked as an actress in theater, tv, and movie productions many Italian
major actors and directors: Paolo Ferrari, Mariangela Melato, Glauco Mauri,
Aurelio Grimaldi, Nando Gazzolo, Eros Pagni, Ida Di Benedetto, Monica Vitti,
Umberto Orsini, G. Bosetti, Ermanno Olmi, Giulio Manfredonia, Alberto Negrin,
Virgilio Zernitz, Giancarlo Sepe, Gianfranco De Bosio, Antonio Calenda, Lorenzo
Salveti, Giuseppe Di Pasquale, Marco Maltauro, Guido De Monticelli, David
Haughton, Stefano Messina, Claudio Pappalardo, Alberto Sordi.
Teresa produced:
- Operetta morale based on works by G. Leopardi. Directed by M. Maltauro Teatro Politecnico, Rome 1992. Roles: actress, text adaptor and producer.
- A Doll’s House by H. Ibsen. Directed by M. Maltauro. Teatro Politecnico and
Ibsen International Festival 1994 in Oslo – Actress, text adaptor and producer.
- Progetto D’Ambrosi Teatro dell’angelo (Rome); La Mama E.T.C.(New York)
1995-1996
- World Food Day Concert (F.A.O.) International Concert Event (live broadcast
world wide from the colosseum - RAI 2 – Rome, Octobre 27 1996 – producer and
2nd artistic director.
- She Loves Me musical by Masteroff, Bock and Harnick - Teatro Eliseo –
Directed by G. Di Pasquale. Rome 1997 – producer, translator, adaptor, actress
- She Loves Me musical by Masteroff, Bock and Harnick – bilingual version Teatro Flaiano – Directed by D. Haughton. Rome 1998 – producer, translator,
adaptor, actress
As a ‘voice artist’ she has revoiced in English, amongst others:
R. Mondello, A. Argento, N. Kinski, N. Hovey, A. Falchi, C. Caselli, V. Marini, O.
Muti, A. Kling directed by E. Scola, A. Negrin, A. Sordi, G. Battiato, and others
Official English voice for Shenker Method, Berlitz, WIND mobile phone
company
Official English and Italian voice for Trenitalia, Regione Toscana, Regione Sicilia.