Vince Melocchi

Vince hails from the Western Pennsylvania area. After graduating high school with a "D" average and lacking direction in life, he went to work as a janitor for a couple of years. Realizing he wanted more from life, but not sure what, he wandered into the movie theatre to see Al Pacino and Jeffrey Tambor in "And Justice For All". Watching those guys work, he realized he wanted to act. He quit his job as a janitor, went to a community college for a year, taking remedial classes to get his grades up. It worked. He eventually was able to transfer to Penn State University, where he started to get cast in those character parts that would be his bread and butter over the years. After Penn State, he was accepted into the Advanced Training Program at the American ConservatoryTheatre in San Francisco studying Shakespeare, Chekov, Odets and Shaw. Staying on the stage, he got his union card while doing Shakespeare's "A Midsummer's Night Dream" at the Westwood Playhouse when a summer stock produc