Italian born, Marco Calvani is an award-winning writer and a director based in LA. Over the course of his twenty-year career as a theatremaker, he received commissions from the Phoenix Theatre of London, Kunsthaus Tacheles of Berlin, Théâtre de la Ville of Paris, and La MaMa Theatre of New York among others. His first short film THE VIEW FROM UP HERE stars Oscar winner Melissa Leo. He is currently post-producing his feature film debut BEST PLACE.