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Foreign language
European foreign language
Monkhouse Michael Paul
I took my degree in languages at Cambridge and have twenty years’ experience in international culture and communication.

Mi sono laureato in lingue a Cambridge e ho venti anni di esperienza nella cultura e comunicazione internazionale.

Experience

Italy, 1999–2022

Translation and adaptation from Italian into English: Emanuela Gardner – Il sentimento delle pietre, Italy 2010, producer Maria Teresa de Vito, in distribution. Alberto Sughi – La pittura è un’avventura, Italy 2010, producer Maria Teresa de Vito, in distribution. Vittorio Sgarbi – L’arte di Alberto Sughi, Italy 2010, producer Maria Teresa de Vito, in distribution. Renzo Piano – Un Centro per Paul Klee, producer: Swiss Embassy, broadcast on Sky-Planet, October 2006.

Translation and adaptation from Italian and German into English of the documentary Paul Klee torna a Rome, producer RAISAT, broadcast on Raidoc, September 2005. For this documentary he also voiced the part of Paul Klee. Journalism: ‘Wanted in Rome’, ‘Roman Forum’, ‘Ingmar Bergman: Face to Face’, ‘Aidonrack Review’, ‘Momento Sera’, ‘ExibitArt’, ‘Centroluce’, ‘Paraxis 02’.
Award-winning writer of reviews and sketches: ‘Channel4 4laughs’, ‘British Comedy Guide’, ‘Chortle’, ‘Chucklemonkey’, ‘Cracked’, ‘Mirthwhile’, ‘Gigglebeats’, ‘Gumbo Press’, ‘Caption Me’.
Sketch writer: BBC programmes ‘Watson’s Wind-Up’, ‘Teethgrinder’, ‘What’s the Story?’, ‘Barmy Nonsense’ and ‘Wake up Leo’; SoundArt Radio/Phonic FM ‘Sam And Dave Show’, Peterborough FM ‘Pleasure Dome’; live comedy ‘Laughing Horse’, ‘Treason Show’, ‘NewsRevue’, ‘24/7 Festival’, ‘Mixt Nutz’; podcasts ‘NewsWeak’, ‘313 Show’, ‘Purple Comedy’, ‘Broken Sea Audio’, ‘Sam And Dave Show’, ‘Middle Distance Productions’, ‘Dogcast’; satirical magazines ‘Daily Liar’, ‘Daily Fortnight’, ‘Spank the News’, ‘News Sensation!’; and for the ventriloquist Lawrence Harris.
Writer, actor, stand-up and director: Rome (English Theatre of Rome, Rome’s Comedy Club, Manhattan Theatre, “Teatro Ghione”, Anfitrione, Tordinona, Weibi, Azzurro Scipioni); London (Royal Court Theatre, Insignificant Theatre, ‘Ten-in-a-bed Theatre Company’); United States (‘Script Frenzy’).
Award-winning writer of prose and poetry: Kate Nash (literary agent), ‘Duality’, ‘Good Ear Review’, ‘White Rabbit’, ‘Fiction Shelf’, ‘Secret Attic’, ‘The Verb’, ‘Brew City Magazine’, ‘Radio Heartbeat’, ‘I Love Poetry’, ‘Family Friends’.
Translator and simultaneous interpreter: newspapers (‘Corriere della Sera’, ‘La Repubblica’, ‘La Stampa’, ‘Il Sole 24 Ore’, ‘Il Mondo’, ‘Italy Oggi’, ‘Finanza Mercati’, ‘Il Giornale’); Berlitz, Medianet, Alba Translations. Language teacher: Wall Street Institute, Shenker, Grazia Deledda (state middle school), British Schools (Barberini and Fleming), Anglo-American, Linguarama, Trust Europe, Rome Language Centre, Skill Me Up.
Sceneggiatore, attore, cabarettista e regista: Rome (English Theatre of Rome, Rome’s Comedy Club, Manhattan Theatre, “Teatro Ghione”, Anfitrione, Tordinona, Weibi, Azzurro Scipioni); London (Royal Court Theatre, Insignificant Theatre, ‘Ten-in-a-bed Theatre Company’); America (‘Script Frenzy’).
Germany, 1994–1998
English teacher: the ‘Fachschule für Agrar- und Hauswirtschaft’ in Stadtroda; the Euro-Schulen institutes in Chemnitz, Gera, Jena and Zwickau, organising, invigilating and preparing international examinations.



Organiser and teacher of evening courses for adults. I led academic discussions on English culture, published in journals with audio cassettes.
I attended ‘Summer in the Country’, a course on language teaching.
Organizzatore e insegnante di corsi serali per adulti.
Cambridge, 1992–1996
Stand-up performer and coordinator: the television programme ‘CSTV’, the comedy societies ‘Footlights’ and ‘Junction’.



Work for Oxfam and UNICEF. Cambridge, 1992 - 1996
Cabarettista e coordinatore: trasmissione televisiva ‘CSTV’, associazioni di comici ‘Footlights’ e ‘Junction’.
Impegni per Oxfam e UNICEF, due organizzazioni di beneficenza.




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Languages
English

: native speaker.

German, Italian: fluent.
French: advanced.
Spanish, Swedish: basic.
Spagnolo, svedese: livello base.

Qualifications

Sir Joseph Williamson’s Mathematical School, Rochester, Kent, 1984–1992

GCSE: English, Literature, French, German, Latin, Greek, History: A Oral communication: 1Mathematics, Physics: B
A-level: German, History, Classical Civilisation: A
Latin: B
AS-level: Religious Studies: A
S-level: Latin: 2
Latino: B
Peterhouse, Cambridge, 1992–1996
S-Level: Latino: 2

Languages (Latin, German): Part I: 2.1 Part II: 2.2:
References
Parte 2: 2,2

Dr Llewellyn, Christ’s College, Cambridge Herr Deetz, Euro-Schulen Gera, Friedrich-Engels-Str. 10, 07545 Gera, Germany:
Dr Llewellyn, Christ’s College, Cambridge
Herr Deetz, Euro-Schulen Gera, Friedrich-Engels-Str 10, 07545 Gera, Germany