Anthony Scillia

Anthony Scillia aka "Tony Mangia" (b. July 10 1982 in Hackensack, New Jersey) is a radio and television personality. Anthony was raised in his father's hometown of Lodi, New Jersey, a town that was made up of predominately Italian-Americans.Fact|date=March 2008

Radio

Anthony "Tony Mangia" Scillia is most recently known for his radio show on [http://www.wpradio887.org "Brave New Radio"] WPSC-FM (88.7 FM, Wayne, NJ), "The Tony Mangia Show - Radio: Italian Style". It is the only positive Italian/Italian-American themed show to be broadcast from New Jersey. The show feeds off of Anthony’s love of his Italian culture and heritage. He plays a wide variety of Italian and Italian-American music from many genres, old and new. The show airs live every Sunday from 3 PM-6 PM.

Anthony has featured numerous guests on the show, including:
*Chef & TV Personality [http://www.LidiasItaly.com Lidia Mattichio Bastianich]
*Tony Award Winner & former lead in the Broadway musical Jersey Boys [http://www.JohnLloydYoung.com John Lloyd Young]
*Singer/Songwriter/Actor [http://www.frankstallone.com Frank Stallone]
*Official Bobby Darin Archivist [http://www.jimmyscalia.com Jimmy Scalia]
*Bobby Darin's Personal Manager Steve "Boom Boom" Blauner
*Italian singer [http://www.GiadaValenti.com Giada Valenti]
*Sicilian Folk Singer [http://www.michelamusolino.com Michela Musolino ]
*Singer/Songwriter [http://www.myspace.com/joepagetta Joe Pagetta]
*Italian-American Singer/Songwriter [http://www.mstella.net Maristella]
*Singer/acoustic guitarist [http://www.myspace.com/anthonyfiumano Anthony Fiumano]
*Comedian [http://www.mikemarino.net Mike Marino]
*Singer [http://www.bobbyvalli.net Bobby Valli]
*Poet [http://www.geocities.com/sambpoet/ Salvatore Amico Buttaci]
*Award-winng author [http://www.thecielobook.com Paul Salsini]
*Olive Oil Aficionado [http://www.myspace.com/johnnydecarlo Johnny DeCarlo]
*Actor [http://www.myspace.com/gaetanoiacono Gaetano Iacono] (co-Star of "Doughboys")
*Musician/Comedian/Entertainer [http://www.myspace.com/larrycutrone Larry Cutrone]
*Filmmaker Stephanie Foerster ( [http://www.watchthepallino.com Watch The Pallino] )

The show has been airing live since October 2006.

Anthony was awarded with the 2007 Maltese Award Winner for Outstanding New On-Air Personality.Fact|date=March 2008 He most recently received WPSC's September 2007 DJ of the Month.

Anthony also hosted "Mangia In The Morning", which was a Classic/Garage/Jersey Rock show that aired from October 2006 to September 2007.

Lodi Late Nite

Anthony was co-creator and host of "Lodi Late Nite", which was a cult classic Public Access Show that aired from December 1999 until September 2000. The show followed a similar format to that of David Letterman. Richard Moschella was co-creator and co-host. Louis Jasmine was co-creator. The show also had such recurrent guests as Artie Magliannico, Johnny Paparazzi and the one and only Andy Martin (Lounge Singer Extraordinaire & Secret Member of the Rat Pack).

Independent Variety Showcaze

Anthony also created and hosted "Independent Variety Showcaze" (2004-2005). "The Showcaze", as it was called, was a Public Access Show that featured people, places and events within North Jersey. The Showcaze’s guests included [http://www.campiwf.com Kevin Knight & Camp IWF Wrestling School] , psychic [http://www.janedoherty.com Jane Doherty] , make-up artist Jeremy Selenfriend and Johnny De Carlo (Olive Oil Aficionado and Importer of Italian goods) to name a few.

Film

Anthony has also directed 3 short student films including" To Each His Own" (2002), "Silence is Golden" (2002) and "Willow Creek" (2005). He has also written a short script entitled [http://www.myspace.com/boccefilm "Bocce"] which has won GIAA's (Guild of Italian-American Actors) Film Fest's Italian-American Heritage Award.

External links

* [http://www.italiansinfonia.com/usradio.htm The Tony Mangia Show on ItalianSinfonia.com]
* [http://www.wpradio887.org/djs/tony.htm Tony Mangia's DJ Profile]
* [http://prowrestlingdaily.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=868/ Independent Variety Showcaze's coverage of Camp IWF]