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Dina Morrone (voiceover, published playwright, performer) was born in the remote northern Ontario, Canada city of Porter Arthur (now Thunder Bay), situated on the shores of Lake Superior. Her Italian Immigrant parents, who traveled from Calabria in southern Italy, passed on their love of storytelling, making people laugh, and the importance of being bilingual.
 
From an early age, Dina was encouraged by her (Nonno) grandfather to write and perform. Her first time on stage was at the age of four when, alongside her older sister, Anna, she sang at the Italian Banquet Hall Annual Christmas Party for five hundred distracted, screaming Italians who were there to see Santa Claus. A box of Black Magic chocolates for her efforts and thunderous applause left her with a burning desire to be in front of an audience performing. Numerous school plays, talent, and figure skating shows followed, and then she joined a modeling/talent agency. It was there she first discovered voiceover. Her first VO gig was reading the school announcements at her high school every morning before class, announcing the daily specials in the makeup department at Eaton's department store, and a few gigs on the radio. Because of her passion for all sports, Dina entertained being a sportscaster. Instead, she embarked on a career as a performer in front of the camera and behind the microphone. She landed some high-profile commercials for Kodak, R.C.A. Records, and American Express, to name a few.
While on location in Antigua, hosting a segment for a Canadian travel show, she met an Italian film crew who encouraged her to take her talent to Italy. She moved to Rome and, in just three months, was chosen by FORD Automobiles, Italy Division, for a National Ad campaign. More commercials and print work followed, leading to film, theater, and voiceover work. In Italy, a new voiceover world opened to Dina: dubbing. She dubbed over 100 movies from Italian to English and worked with some iconic directors. On camera, Dina was cast in several European and Italian/American co-productions. She feels privileged to have worked with the likes of Alain Delon, Klaus Kinski, Martin Sheen, Yari Gugliucci, Roberto Benigni, Inna Tchourikova, Alexander Gallin, Claudia Koll, Jacques Deray, Ralph Thomas, Tinto Brass, Elvio Porta, Bruno Corbucci, and Norman Jewison, to name a select few.
R.A.I. Television hired Dina to host several culturally informative television news shows, which aired worldwide. Besides meeting the Maestro, Federico Fellini, one of her many highlights in The Eternal City was working alongside American screen and stage actress Susan Strasberg as her right-hand moderator and assistant during Susan's Intensive Master Acting Workshops.
 
Since moving to Los Angeles, Dina has stayed active in voiceover and theatre. She is a Theatre West member and the current vice-chair of the artistic board. She has produced several plays for the theatre, including So Many Stars, Moose On The Loose, The Phil Hendrie Solo Show: A Night with Phil Hendrie, Not Your Cup Of Tea AAPI(AP), Portraits of Humanity 2, and SOLOpalooza 2.022, to name a few. And also produced Who I Am, a celebration of African American Heritage, a virtual show for Black History Month.

 

Dina's voiceover work keeps her busy on feature films, T.V. shows, commercials, animation, video games, and as an announcer at awards shows like the Emmy Winning awards show on PBS, The Media Access Awards, as well as others like the A.C.E. Eddie Awards, M.P.S.E. Gold Reel Awards, C.A.S. Awards, H.P.A. Awards, Vaughan International Film Festival Awards, and many more. Her voice has been featured in Academy Award-nominated films such as LUCA, DUNE, AVATAR, and T.V. shows like THE MORNING SHOW.
 
Through countless short stories Dina has written over the years, a few gave birth to her award-winning One Woman Show entitled The Italian in Me. She garnered rave reviews from critics and audiences for her acting and writing. In 2018, she received the Valley Theatre Award for Best One Person Show, reviewplays.com named her one of the Top Ten Best Actresses, and the Los Angeles Woman's Festival (L.A.W.T.F.) presented her with the Inspiring Solo Performance Award.
 
Moose On The Loose, a comedy about an Italian family and a Canadian moose, is Dina's full-length play with a cast of 12. It premised at Theatre West in Los Angeles, CA, and was subsequently picked up and produced in Canada. Mel Brooks said of the play, "I cannot tell a lie. Moose On The Loose is really funny and surprisingly moving." The play garnered four Scenie Awards, including Best Comedy and Best Acting Ensemble. MOOSE was included in an anthology published by GUERNICA called CANADIAN PLAYWRIGHTS of ITALIAN HERITAGE. 
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Through countless short stories Dina has written over the years, one of them gave birth to her One Woman Show entitled The Italian In Me, which had its World Premiere at the Globe Playhouse in Los Angeles. She garnered rave reviews from critics and audiences for her acting and writing. In June 2018, she received the Valley Theatre Award for Best One Person Show. In addition, Reviewplays.com named her one of the Top Ten Best Actresses, and the Los Angeles Woman's Festival (LAWTF) presented her with the Inspiring Solo Performance Award.


 

The Italian In Me has also been performed at the Los Angeles Women's Theater Festival LAWTF, Marilyn Monroe Theatre, Pepperdine University in Malibu, Theatre West – WEST FEST Festival, Portraits of Humanity, a solo festival, The Odyssey Theatre, Sunday Night Solo Series, The Italian Cultural Institute, The Feast of San Gennaro, LA Women's Club, Highways Theatre, The Santa Monica Playhouse in Santa Monica CA, The Electric Lodge in Venice, CA, The Potawatomi Casino in Milwaukee, and The Diesel Playhouse, in Toronto, Canada.
​Moose On The Loose, a comedy about an Italian family and a Canadian moose, is Dina's full-length play with a cast of 12, which had its world premiere at Theatre West in Los Angeles, CA. The show was a smash hit and was subsequently picked up and produced in Canada by Magnus Theatre and Sudbury Theatre Centre STC. Mel Brooks said, "I cannot tell a lie. Moose On The Loose is really funny and surprisingly moving."  

 

Since 2015, Dina has been the Executive Contributing Editor and a Contributing Feature Writer of The Eden Magazine, a lifestyle consciousness magazine. She has interviewed the likes of Martin Luther King Jr. III and his wife, Arndrea King, Italian icon Gina Lollobrigida, Blair Underwood, Louis Gossett Jr., Bruce Dern, Paolo Sorrentino, Susan L. Taylor, and Ed Begley Jr., to name a few. The magazine aims to create a better environment where we all live among other living beings in peace and harmony. It spreads compassion to all sentient beings. The magazine also supports artists whose work matches the magazine’s criteria.

 

 

Dina is a proud member of The Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television, Playwrights Guild Of Canada, Dramatists Guild Of America, Women In Theatre, Theatre West, The Producers League of Los Angeles, L'Accademia Italiana Di Cucina, Canadians Abroad, Theatre Ontario, LA Stage Alliance, SAG-AFTRA, A.C.T.R.A., A.E.A., Ryerson Alumni, U.C.L.A. Alumni, Beverly Hills Woman's Club, Italian Cultural Institute, and Le D.I.V.E. (Donne Italiane che vivono a l'estero – Italian Women who live abroad.)
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