Donald Iarussi MFA

Born and raised in New York City.

I have lived in various places in the USA. I am now in Montana.

I received my MFA in directing from Brooklyn College At Brooklyn College, I worked as an Assistant for two years under the direction of Academy Award Winning Actor F. Murray Abraham. (Amadeus) and NYC Casting Director Stuart Howard.

Mr Iarussi also directed an acting for the camera video with Acadeny Award Winning Actor F. Murray Abraham and actor Joe Zaloom.

MrIarussi has worked on over 100 video productions and has won numerous video awards including best PSA/Promo at the Hometown Video festival, Best Music Video, National Broadcasting Society, Best drama, Best PSA/Promo, The National Broadcasting Society for his work on Rape Awarness and sexual assault, The PSA's are in English, Smerican Sign Language , Mandarin Chinese. The videos have beed accepted in the museum of Television and Radio.

He Completed a book titled "101 Recipes for a Leftover Camel" have been a publicist for many talents including Grammy Winning Musician Johnny "Clyde" Copeland", Lynne Arriale Trio, Author Gerald Grimmett, etc.

He spent two years in Kalamazoo working on a script titled "The Ferry Woman" and is directing film shorts for submission to film festivals. Also co-hosted "The Bob and Don show". He taught motion picture, television and commercial production .

He is also an award winning photographer and has challenged and won lawsuits and discrimination suits vs fortune 500 companies