KCIC Presents
​the canada wide hit one-man show by guido cocomello
Saturday, October 29 @ 8 PM at the Mary irwin theatre

SO I MARRIED A MANGIACAKE
Toronto - Montreal - vancouver...And now kelowna!

man-gia-cake
/ˈmənjəˌkāk/
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noun - (among Canadians of Italian descent) a person who is not Italian.
e.g. - "don't be a mangiacake and ask for grated cheese"
You can't get much more Italian than Guido Cocomello.
​Come on - with a name like Guido Cocomello, how could you not be Italian?

Born and raised in a quintessentially Italian family in Montreal, Guido never realized how strange some of the cultural quirks and traditions he grew up with might seem to non-Italians - or "mangiacakes". That was, until he married one and saw his world through her eyes.

From that - and as a tribute to his father who passed away 10 years ago - he found the inspiration to create the hilarious and poignant one-man show: So I Married a Mangiacake. The show has played to rave reviews and standing ovations across Canada. Now the Kelowna Canadian Italian Club is proud to bring it to the Mary Irwin Theatre. 
A SPECIAL MESSAGE FROM GUIDO TO THE MEMBERS AND FRIENDS OF KCIC
Find out more about the New Vintage Theatre Program
GET YOUR TICKETS NOW!
Tickets are now on sale through the Rotary Centre of the Arts Box Office.

TICKETS $45 PLUS FEE (TOTAL $51.25)

SUPPORT THE DRAMATIC ARTS FOR LOCAL TEENS!
Through a generous arrangement with Guido, for those who purchase your tickets and enter this Promotion code - KCIC2022 - a small donation from each ticket sold will go to support the New Vintage Theatre's Stage Door Theatre Program For Teen Actors. There's no extra cost to you - and you can support this great program!
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SPECIAL PROMO!
This takes you off site to the RCA Ticket Platform. Don't forget your Promotion donation code - KCIC2022

A Conversation with Guido cocomellO about Mangiacakes
​(and other things)!

KCIC President Rosann Nanci, Guido Cocomello and Gord Hotchkiss (a Mangiacake and co-chair of KCIC's LNFI Committee) have a far ranging conversation about his show - So I Married A Mangiacake, his inspirations, growing up Italian, Nonni, food, why every picture of Italian families is taken at a kitchen table, the ways Italians and Mangiacakes (non-Italians) can learn from each other, sense of community and pretty much everything else under the sun. (Length - 45 minutes)
GUIDO COCOMELLO

Born and raised in Montreal, Guido Cocomello is a professional stand-up comedian and actor. In 2013, he presented his Italian one-man show "Crisi d'Identita" in Rome and as a comedian has been featured at the 2014 Boston Comedy Festival, the 2015 Just For Laughs Festival where he performed in the "Homegrown Comedy" show, the 2015 Cracking Up the Capital Comedy Festival in Ottawa where he headlined the "Culture Clubbing" show and was featured in the "Best of the Fest" show and was a finalist at the 2017 Cleveland Comedy Competition.

As an actor, Guido trained with the late, Academy Award Winner Mike Nichols in his Master Class at The New Actors Workshop in New York City. Theatre credits include various productions in Montreal, New Jersey and NYC. Onscreen, he has appeared on Being Human for Syfy ,the Discovery Channel docudrama Fatal Vows, ABC's General Hospital, TNT's The Last Ship and he was in American Horror Story. Recently, he appeared in Ford v. Ferrari, starring Matt Damon and Christian Bale, directed by James Mangold, and 2021's Being the Ricardos, directed by Aaron Sorkin and starring Nicole Kidman and Javier Bardem.   

​He has called LA home since 2016.
GUIDO'S TV AND FILM APPEARANCES