SMITHTOWN, NY – The coronavirus outbreak caused many events to be cancelled, adding live performances and other broadcasts. For actresses like Elena Faverio of Smithtown, it’s an incredibly difficult time to locate concerts. To keep busy, Faverio, 26, presented a YouTube channel in March where he created videos and short films.
“I looked for a way to remain artistic the lockdown, so I created ‘QuARTantine’ where I created other types of art on social media for 14 consecutive days,” Faverio told Patch via email.
Her projects include making a wedding dress up with familiar items, tracking makeup tutorials, writing a song, juggling and baking inflated pancakes.
“I enjoyed those two weeks, but I found it tiring to create something every day… so I sat down and thought of more sustainable tactics to generate art, and I made the decision to launch my YouTube channel!” she wrote.
Faverio releases two videos a week, on Wednesday and Sunday mornings. In his video on Wednesday, he uses a more comfortable v-log technique in which he discusses certain topics; infrequently similar to theatre or art, infrequently not. You can also document any laughter you make during the day: “how to cut my bangs! It was terrifying!” she said.
On Sundays he tries to make a more artistic video. Short films, music videos; her to do “a little bit of everything.”
“Honestly, I need my YouTube channel to be a place where other people can come and relax, laugh, think and some art and nonsense.”
Her channel is her name: Elena Faverio. As of Tuesday, it has more than 60 subscribers. Some of his videos include “I Made an Over-the-Counter Crumb Cake!”, “Quarantine Personal Care,” “A Brief Long Island Story,” “My Theater School Experience” and “Make Up with My Eyes Closed.” His videos usually last between five and fifteen minutes, there are exceptions: the two parts of his “Did you meet?” The series lasted 20 minutes.
Faverio, a self-proclaimed actor, activist and general author of artistic antics, was born and raised in Smithtown. He earned his Bachelor of Theatre from Williams College in Massachusetts, studied clown and physical theater in Tuscany, learned to design and create theater at the National Theatre Institute in Connecticut, and, most recently, spent three years earning his master’s degree in theater from La Guildhall School in London.
He started playing at age 8. His first production was a “childish version” of Mary Poppins at Suffolk YJCC in Commack. Prior to going to college, he directed the most exclusively in musicals at various Long Island theaters, adding the Smithtown Center for the Performing Arts, CM and Smithtown High School West. In college, he studied theater, physical theater, clown, mime, invented performance, cabaret, composition and dramaturgy and solo performance. His university delight has broadened his artistic horizons, he says. Today, she discovers herself in professional works and develops her solo paintings on YouTube.
As an employment actor, Faverio has organized many other concerts while auditioning and playing, and joins as a waiter at a Vietnamese restaurant, assistant coach at a nursery, secretary in the commercial workplace of a hospital and assistant artistic director of a national convention on the arts. . More recently, she painted full-time as a professional actress, the coronavirus epidemic has led to limited paintings for artists.
The full Faverio resume is available on your website.
This article was originally published in the Smithtown Patch