Pedretti spent the first part of his professional career as
a college professor of theater directing over sixty theater productions. Later,
he produced international theater festivals presenting over one hundred and
seventy movement theater shows from thirty countries. The festivals were
covered in hundreds of newspapers and magazines, and were featured many times
on Fresh Air and on national TV on Fox News, The Today Show and CBS Nightwatch.
He recently completed a two-volume book covering the work of the originating performance
artists whose work was presented at the international theater festivals he
produced and who challenged the theater world in the later part of the
twentieth century.
Pedretti
traveled to Italy several times to encounter the small valley in Northern Italy
that his ancestors called home for a thousand years before immigrating to a
small Midwestern town in the mid-nineteenth century. There he discovered his
ancestors were a kind, creative and empathetic people. As he learned more about
them he became inspired to write a twelve book American epic titled The Story
of Our Stories covering many generations in a family saga that highlights their
contributions to and perspectives on life. While there he researched the
genealogical roots of the main family of his stories. More importantly he
experienced the places and met the people who still live in the communities he
has written about. He is currently over halfway through writing a twelve volume
epic called The Story of Our Stories which tells the journey of an archetypical
American family starting from the earliest human mother right through the next
generation with a focus on the last families to live in Europe and the first
families to settle in small town America in the second half of the nineteenth
century.
The
author was born and raised on a farm just outside Genoa, Wisconsin, the locale
for many of his stories and where his family farmed for over one hundred years.
He spent many hours as a child hanging out with and listening to the tales of
his grandfather who was the first in his family to be born in America – born
before Lincoln became President. As a child he did many of the activates such
as helping to make bresaola, milking cows by hand and chopping wood with a
blunt ax that the people he writes about had been doing for a thousand years –
giving him an inimitable viewpoint as he brings the characters alive in his
stories. In addition to writing historical fiction, biographical stories and
pure fiction, he enjoys writing poetry.
Having
traveled to well over thirty countries and visited nearly every state, the
author has a world view on life. He enjoys meeting people from other cultures
and dining at out of the way restaurants serving authentic native food. He has
been selected to be in International Directory of Distinguished Leadership,
Who's Who in the World, The Contemporary Who’s Who of Professionals,
International Who’s Who of Intellectuals, Who's Who in World Education, Who’s
Who in Entertainment, Who’s Who Registry of Business Leaders, Who’s Who in
America, Who’s Who in the South, Men of Achievement and Outstanding Young Men
of America. He has served on peer panels for the NEA, the NJ Arts Council, and
the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation. He has received several awards for his work
in the mime and clown field.
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Pedretti spent the first part of his professional career as
a college professor of theater directing over sixty theater productions. Later,
he produced international theater festivals presenting over one hundred and
seventy movement theater shows from thirty countries. The festivals were
covered in hundreds of newspapers and magazines, and were featured many times
on Fresh Air and on national TV on Fox News, The Today Show and CBS Nightwatch.
He recently completed a two-volume book covering the work of the originating performance
artists whose work was presented at the international theater festivals he
produced and who challenged the theater world in the later part of the
twentieth century.
Pedretti
traveled to Italy several times to encounter the small valley in Northern Italy
that his ancestors called home for a thousand years before immigrating to a
small Midwestern town in the mid-nineteenth century. There he discovered his
ancestors were a kind, creative and empathetic people. As he learned more about
them he became inspired to write a twelve book American epic titled The Story
of Our Stories covering many generations in a family saga that highlights their
contributions to and perspectives on life. While there he researched the
genealogical roots of the main family of his stories. More importantly he
experienced the places and met the people who still live in the communities he
has written about. He is currently over halfway through writing a twelve volume
epic called The Story of Our Stories which tells the journey of an archetypical
American family starting from the earliest human mother right through the next
generation with a focus on the last families to live in Europe and the first
families to settle in small town America in the second half of the nineteenth
century.
The
author was born and raised on a farm just outside Genoa, Wisconsin, the locale
for many of his stories and where his family farmed for over one hundred years.
He spent many hours as a child hanging out with and listening to the tales of
his grandfather who was the first in his family to be born in America – born
before Lincoln became President. As a child he did many of the activates such
as helping to make bresaola, milking cows by hand and chopping wood with a
blunt ax that the people he writes about had been doing for a thousand years –
giving him an inimitable viewpoint as he brings the characters alive in his
stories. In addition to writing historical fiction, biographical stories and
pure fiction, he enjoys writing poetry.
Having
traveled to well over thirty countries and visited nearly every state, the
author has a world view on life. He enjoys meeting people from other cultures
and dining at out of the way restaurants serving authentic native food. He has
been selected to be in International Directory of Distinguished Leadership,
Who's Who in the World, The Contemporary Who’s Who of Professionals,
International Who’s Who of Intellectuals, Who's Who in World Education, Who’s
Who in Entertainment, Who’s Who Registry of Business Leaders, Who’s Who in
America, Who’s Who in the South, Men of Achievement and Outstanding Young Men
of America. He has served on peer panels for the NEA, the NJ Arts Council, and
the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation. He has received several awards for his work
in the mime and clown field.
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