Patricia Iacobazzo

Education

BA, Brooklyn College, City University of New York
MA, Long Island University

Biography

Prof. Patricia Iacobazzo has been an active member of the FIT English and Communication Studies Department for more than two decades. She teaches face-to-face, blended learning/hybrid, and online courses in Public Speaking, Argumentation and Persuasion, Voice and Articulation, Professional Communication (Interview Skills), Group Dynamics, and Voices of the Civil Rights. She also teaches interdisciplinary courses such as Vocabulary and the Derivation of Language, dealing with oral and written composition and honors courses in Political Rhetoric and Theatre as Social Ritual.

Iacobazzo created a private diction studio, "Wanna Tawk Bedda", in New York City to eliminate regionalisms for English as Second Language businessmen and to acquire specific regionalisms tailored to the professional stage and commercials actor. She has been the resident diction specialist at Barbizon Modeling School and John Robert Powers.

Iacobazzo coordinated the JJC College Speech Contest bi-annually sponsored by McGraw Hill.  Her students consistently placed 1st and 2nd, as well as going on to win the CUNY-wide CLASP Speech Contest.

Iacobazzo began her professional singing and acting career by winning a full scholarship to the Metropolitan Opera Studios for voice training. She performed more than 20 major operatic roles spanning the classics such as Bellini's NORMA and Mozart's NOZZE DI FIGARO to Verdi's OTELLO, BALLO IN MASCHERA, IL TROVATORE, Leoncavallo's PAGLIACCI, and Puccini's MADAMA BUTTERFLY and SUOR ANGELICA. She is a seasoned professional in opera, operetta, musical comedy, film, television, and classical acting with a specialty in Shakespeare.

Iacobazzo is a member of Actors Equity, Screen Actors Guild, and AFTRA.