Santo Cilauro

Santo Cilauro (born in 1962 in Melbourne, Australia) is an Australian television and feature film producer, screenwriter and cameraman.

He is a currently a member of the Working Dog production company which created the TV shows The Panel and Thank God You're Here. Working Dog was also behind The Castle and The Dish.

He played weatherman Geoffrey Salter on Frontline (1994–97), Stix on Funky Squad (1995), and IT technician Griffin on the Shaun Micallef sitcom Welcher & Welcher (2003). Cilauro was, with Rob Sitch and Tom Gleisner, co-author of the Jetlag Travel Guides to Molvanîa, Phaic Tăn and San Sombrèro. He also created the popular internet character Zladko Vladcik. As a passionate Collingwood supporter, he often name-dropped the club in his sketches; he recently wrote a chapter of the Collingwood supporter's book, "The Barrackers Are Shouting".

In the mid to late 1980s Santo was part of The D-Generation (D-Gen) Breakfast show on Eon FM (now Triple M Melbourne). Characters played were "Wayne from St Albans" and "Gino Tagliatoni".

He was one of the regular cast of The Late Show in 1992 and 1993.

Other credits include:

• Thank God You're Here (TV series) (2006-), Executive Producer, Performer
• The Dish (2000), Producer, Screenwriter
• Frontline (1994–95, 97) - Weather Man
• The Castle (1997), Screenwriter
• A River Somewhere (1997–98) - Himself
• Johnny Swank
• The Late Show (1992–93) - Himself/Various (also writer)
• The D-Generation (1986–87) - Various (also writer)

Cilauro is a noted supporter and active participant of charities. Athletes as Role Models Tour (ARMTour) is an example where he organized a group of Australian sports people and celebrities to travel to remote communities as a way of promoting education and healthy lifestyles to Australia's indigenous youth.

Zladko "Zlad!" Vladcik

Zladko "Zlad!" Vladcik is a fictional character of the equally fictional nation of Molvanîa. Over time, he has become an Internet phenomenon.

Elektronik Supersonik

"Elektronik Supersonik" is itself a kitschy, over-the-top combination of Italo disco and Synthpop. Zlad! is featured in a mullet, bushy mustache, and silver spacesuit and is supported by a female keytarist and background vocalist with pink hair. His lyrics are often in spoken word or badly sung, not to mention full of grammatical errors, reversed semantic units, and meta-references to thick Slavic accents. For example the song opens with: "Hey baby, wake up from your asleep. We have arrived onto the future and the whole world is become elektronik, supersonik." It was featured in a recent ad campaign for Mountain Dew MDX. It also carries a heavy sexual undertone.

External links

• Santo Cilauro on IMDB
• Vodafone lifts indigenous kids up to the stars Cilauro's work with ARMTour
• Interview : Web Wombat DVD Channel
• Elektronik Supersonik on YouTube