Dani Pagliarello

Dani Pagliarello on the red carpet at the Canadian Screen Awards in 2024.

Dani Pagliarello is a Canadian actor, director, writer, producer and two-time Canadian Screen Award nominee. She is the co-show runner and co-creator [1] of The Drop, on Tubi and Amazon Prime. The Drop was created for True West Films[2] and premiered on Narcity Media's YouTube Channel in 2023.[3] She received Best Comedy Director at Rio Webfest[4] alongside collaborator Jordan Canning.

Education

Pagliarello graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts from York University's Acting Conservatory.[5]

Career

She has featured in a number of plays, including Bertolt Brecht's The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, in which she portrayed Ui.,[6] a role which landed her a My Theatre Awards nomination for Best Actress.[7] Pagliarello has had acting roles in Hulu's The Handmaid's Tale, and Paramount+'s upcoming Cross, CBC Gem's Sort Of, and Netflix film Luckiest Girl Alive.[8]

Through The Drop, Pagliarello earned Canadian Screen Award nominations at the 12th Canadian Screen Awards, for Best Series and Best Lead Performance in Web Program or Series[9] and she won Best Comedy Director at Rio Webfest alongside collaborator Jordan Canning. The Drop also won Best Toronto Series at T.O. WebFest.[10]

Awards and nominations

  • 2023: Awarded Best Toronto Series for The Drop at T.O. WebFest[10][11]

References

  1. ↑ "'The Drop' co-creators Daniela Pagliarello, Aisha Evelyna found 'lightning in a bottle' with award-winning web series". Yahoo News. June 23, 2024.
  2. ↑ "Cameras roll on True West Films' first scripted series The Drop". playbackonline.ca.
  3. ↑ Cutruzzola, Annemarie (November 27, 2023). "Toronto-Based Gen-Z Satire 'The Drop' Finds the Humour in Line-Waiting". shedoesthecity.com.
  4. ↑ https://www.imdb.com/event/ev0005280/2023/1/
  5. ↑ Vernieri, Demian (2023-06-15). "Tragedy Plus Time: Toronto-based Comic Dani Pagliarello". Toronto Guardian. Retrieved 2024-10-29.
  6. ↑ Bimm, Jordan (December 4, 2013). "The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui". NOW Magazine.
  7. ↑ https://www.myentertainmentworld.ca/2014/03/daniela-pagliarello/
  8. ↑ "Luckiest Girl Alive (2022)". IMDb.
  9. ↑ "Dani Pagliarello". academy.ca. March 6, 2024.
  10. 1 2 "True West Films' first scripted comedy 'THE DROP' Wins Best Toronto Web Series at T.O. Webfest". KRON. 4 October 2023.
  11. ↑ "2023 Nominees & Winners". towebfest.ca.
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