Lauren Zito (Toolgirl) graduated from the University of Southern Maine in 1992 with a Bachelors of Fine Arts and a Bachelors of Arts in Art History, then in 1994 graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a Masters of Fine Arts, with a primary focus on sculpture. After spending a few years in sunny California, she moved to the town of Pittsburgh. Upon touching down in the steel city, she immediately went to work at the Carnegie Museum of Art, where she worked at the administrative level for approximately 3 years -- planning, coordinating and assisting the curators with the development of nationally recognized exhibitions, art installations and art handling. Ms. Zito slowly phased out the art handling career to fill her time exclusively with teaching, her true passion. She currently a Faculty member at The Art Institute of Pittsburgh and Duquesne University.
She stumbled (literally) upon filmmaking about a year ago when she started to play around making short films, monologues and what the YouTube community affectionately calls: "Vlogs". Being not much of a 'vlogger' her passion fell mostly into story-telling, acting and editing. After some encouragement from friends, she embarked on a very long term project that has taken over her life. It's called "The Weakness". In a nutshell: It's a Gender-bending, film-noir style web serial, a coming-of-age story... only with vampires. She plays the 3 primary roles -- a 400+ year old vampire with a Billy Idol complex, an even older vampire with a desperate and panicked taste for young blood and a young woman who is sweet, loony, yet always inappropriately dressed in prom-wear who knows a lot more than she is letting on.
This is a far reaching story that looks like it is going to
monopolize her life for some time to come. What fun!
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