A jittery flesh-covered comedian, writer, and performance artist based in Chicago who creates absurd, surreal, and empathetic works exploring the tension between reality and fantasy. His pieces challenge fitting in, connection, embarrassment, and the blurred line between performance and sincerity, using gross body humor, vaudevillian physicality, and anxious personas to humanize absurdity, confronting audiences with discomfort and kindness. Rooted in nostalgia, improvisation, and do-it-yourself collaboration with friends, he prioritizes friendship and jollification, having an obsessive need to be liked and considered normal. By blending absurdity with vulnerability, Rocco crafts performances reflecting imagination, delusion, anxiety, and the emotional struggles that define human existence.
Rocco Meo
DIGITAL AND AUDIO WORK
Producer/Writer/Performer. After being dogged on by his friend, Li Angarola, a young comedian, Rocco Meo, looks to find something he can fall back on in case of his eminent demise in comedy.
Producer/Writer/Performer. A young conspiracy theorist is conviced salt is the only thing needed for survival. When he finds out his grandma's boyfriend is from the FDA he begins to spiral.
Writer/Performer. An awkward boy misperceives the phrase "morning wood."
Writer/Perfomer. An eccentric journalist finds a denim cult living inside of a bought out YMCA space. After trying to uncover their secrets the rest of the footage is lost.
Writer/Voice Actor. A selfish child eats dandelions in an attempt to stop playing baseball. When his coach says to keep playing after he throws up, it is his goal to ruin the game.
Writer/Performer/Editor. An apprehensive creature seeks validation on the music he plays in his college’s dining hall. After misinterpreting how people really feel he knows he did a good job.
Writer/Performer. When a straight mormon man taking engagment photos runs into his college male lover he decides to open up the relationship.
Writer/Co-Producer. A disgruntled fella is put in fear when his roommate wears a towel emblazoned with the scariest cartoon character. He is assured it is not real until the truth lights up.
Writer/Perfomer. A novice tries to prove he knows what sex it, saying he'll spin his gums around on a shoulder trying to win sex with a beaver.
Producer/Performer. 515 is a look into two friends and their friendship situations, and how they interact within their environment. They can not get through a conversation without it divulging into conflict. So where is the line between bit and reality?
