Robert Daraio:  

Robert Daraio, Our Lady of Mercy 1960-64, Ridge Street School 1965-69, Archbishop Stepinac HS 1969-73,SUNY Purchase, BFA Theater Tech,1977, CUNY SPS MA Labor Studies 2011, spent the summers during his SUNY Purchase years traveling with "The Circus Kingdom", a youth circus program run by Rev. L. David Harris made up of college students from across the U.S.A. including fellow Purchase students Jessie Hentoff, Lenny Wright, Woody Davis, and Margie Wood. The show toured throughout the U.S. and Canada each season. During his senior year at Purchase, Bob founded "The No Elephant Circus". TNEC operated under the Actor's Equity Association Theater For Young Audience contract from 1977 to 1990, touring an average of 126 cities in 15 States annually. Bob joined Tribune’s flagship television station, WPIX, as a master control Technical Director and Video Engineer on June 1,1999 and retired June 1, 2010. This was Bob’s first staff position following a 22-year career as a freelance camera, robotics, video, audio, and videotape technician. His news, sports, and entertainment clients include CBS, NBC, FOX5, TBS, ABC, UPN9, WPIX, WNET, MSG, CNN, CNNfn, HBO, Showtime, MTV, VH1, CTW, NEP, Unitel, MTI, ESPN, and the National Geographic Society. In 2002 the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences honored Bob for his video and robotic camera work on the Emmy Award winning “The WB11 News At 10”, now "The CW11 News At 10". Bob has been a video assist technician for hundreds of television commercials and coordinated video effects for feature films including the Rozie Perez and Patti Lupone independent film, “24 Hour Woman” and “For Love Of The Game” with Kevin Costner for Universal Pictures. Following his retirement from WPIX, Bob began graduate studies in employee labor relations and in June 2011, completed his MA in Labor Studies at the CUNY Murphy In...Expand for more