Damian Maffei
| Damian Maffei | |
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| Born |
Damian Paul Maffei June 27, 1977 Maspeth, Queens, United States |
| Occupation | Actor |
Damian Paul Maffei (born June 27, 1977) is an American actor known for his work on stage and in independent movies. Maffei is especially heralded for his work in horror films, including the highly touted Closed for the Season.
Damian was born in Maspeth, Queens in New York City, where he spent the first four years of his life. He and his family — which included his parents Mary and William along with his brothers John and Jeremy and his sister Jennifer — then moved to Levittown, New York, where he attended Abbey Lane Elementary School and Wisdom Middle School. But it was during his years at Division High School that he first felt the urge to try his hand at acting. He took his first theatre class there and auditioned for the school musical, Little Shop of Horrors. He won the part of the voice of Audrey 2. Damian was officially now a thespian. Up to that point in his life, baseball had always been his first love; but he promptly realized that his future vocation and new life’s passion was destined to be in the performing arts. He no longer had time for baseball, now devoting all his time and energy into learning his newfound craft. For the remainder of his high school years, he was the lead actor in all the school’s plays and musicals, including Prince Dauntless in Once Upon a Mattress and Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof.
Upon his graduation, Maffei attended Nassau Community College, where he studied under Victor Abravaya. Damian’s first role was Alec in Raft of the Medusa. This undertaking was a turning point in Damian’s career, as Abravaya, the play’s director as well as a lifelong student and advocate of the Sanford Meisner acting technique, pushed Maffei to bring additional depth and development to his character and to his artistry. At Abravaya’s behest, Damian entered the highly respected William Esper Studios in Manhattan. It was there that Maffei studied the Meisner technique, honing and refining his acting skills.
Damian began his career by taking on the demanding role of Professor Harold Hill in The Music Man at the Cultural Arts Playhouse in New York. A rousing success, Maffei continued his stage work, taking on roles in such diverse works as Einstein in Picasso at the Lapin Agile and, most recently, The Narrator in A Night of Joe R. Lansdale.
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