Robert Daraio
Robert Daraio is currently the Recording Secretary of the N.Y. Broadcast Trades Council and moderator of
[email protected] .He was a staff video engineer/robotic camera operator at WPIX from 1999 to 2009 following a 22 year career as a freelance stagehand/broadcast engineer.Bob is an MA in Labor Studies candidate at the CUNY Murphy Institute for Worker Education and Labor Studies and will graduate in June 2011.Bob is a member of AEA, AFTRA, IATSE, IBEW, and NABET and has served on the Executive Boards of NABET Local 15 and IATSE Local 644. He served two terms on the New York City Central Labor Council of the AFL-CIO.Bob is a U.S. Coast Guard Licensed Master of Near Coastal 50 Ton Vessels with Commercial Towing and Sail Endorsements and a Coast Guard Certified Port Engineer.Bob lives in Ossining, N.Y. with his wife Gayle Palmieri, an IATSE Local 764 member, working in the wardrobe department at various Broadway shows, currently in production for "
Sister Act" which opens in March 2011.