Randall Rossilli Jr.

Since July 2019, Rossilli has been principal at Celebrate the Children School in Denville, New Jersey. Celebrate the Children is a premier school for children with autism and alternative learning needs. It employs the unique, relationship-based DIR/Floortime™ model to engage children in social-emotional growth, while ensuring they also receive their state-required academic mandates.

In 2017, Rossilli decided to return to the classroom, accepting a position to teach high school broadcast journalism at Passaic Valley High School, in Little Falls, New Jersey.

From 2016-2017, Rossilli consulted with MJH Associates in Cranbury, NJ. As their Director of Studio Operations and New Media, he helped design, build, and roll out their multimillion-dollar in-house television and recording studios. Rossilli runs Nightstand Studios and Nightstand Creations, Inc. in Fairfield, New Jersey. He is married, has two children, and lives in Livingston, New Jersey.

Rossilli has been nominated for four Emmy Awards - three Mid-Atlantic Emmy Awards as Director, Producer (2010 December Miracles) (3) and for Outstanding Programming, and he won the 2009 Mid-Atlantic Emmy award for Outstanding Program or special for Children/Youth/Teens for the pilot of his property The Adventures of Young Thomas Edison, (1) (4) for which is wrote, directed, composed and performed the music, edited, and designed the puppet and animated characters, as well as lending his voice to a handful of characters. Subsequently, he was nominated for a New York Emmy for Outstanding Music Composition for his public television special Lil’ Grusome and the Nutshell Gang.

Rossilli has been nominated for four Emmys, winning one in 2009. He has also won the New York International Film Festival for his contributions to the Social Documentary, Presumption of Guilt. He was the founder and President/CEO of Nightstand Creations, Inc. as well as Nightstand Studios and the Nightstand Music Group. He is currently the teacher of Broadcast Journalism, and oversees PVTV for Passaic Valley Regional High School in Little Falls, NJ.

Rossilli attended Hanover Park High School and graduated in 1986. In high school, he became involved in the theater and music programs. He received his BA in communication - radio/television/audio production from William Paterson University, where he met his wife, Jenny, who was studying to be a speech pathologist. Eventually he went back to school to become a teacher and later received his master's degree in education and administration from Seton Hall University. Ultimately, Randy earned his Doctorate in Educational Leadership from Northcentral University.

Dr. Randall Rossilli Jr. (born January 11, 1968) is media entrepreneur and educator.

Rossilli was born January 11, 1968, in Clara Maas Hospital in Belleville, New Jersey, to Randall Rossilli, a self-employed entrepreneur who owned his own flooring business, and Patricia Rossilli, a legal secretary who would become a stay-at-home mom. Raised in Newark, New Jersey, Randy would be the oldest of the three children born to Randy and Patti. When Randy was 3, his parents had his sister, Karen, and nearly four years later they had his younger brother, Michael. At the age of 12, his parents moved him and his siblings from Newark, 15 miles outside of the city to East Hanover Township, New Jersey. Although relatively poor, Rossilli’s parents paid for many years of guitar lessons. He would continue his guitar studies into his college years.