Rocca was born in Washington, D.C.; his mother immigrated there from Bogotá, Colombia in 1956 at age 28, and his father was a third generation Italian-American from Leominster, Massachusetts. He attended Georgetown Preparatory School, a Jesuit boys\' school in North Bethesda, Maryland. He graduated from Harvard University in 1991 with a bachelor of arts degree in literature. He served as president of Harvard\'s Hasty Pudding Theatricals, performing in four of the company\'s notorious burlesques and co-authoring one (Suede Expectations).\n', '

Rocca began his career acting on stage in the Southeast Asia tour of the musical Grease (1993) and Paper Mill Playhouse\'s South Pacific (1994).\n', '

His first television work was as a writer and producer for the Emmy and Peabody Award-winning children\'s television series Wishbone. He also wrote for The Wubbulous World of Dr. Seuss on the Nickelodeon TV channel and Pepper Ann on the ABC TV network.\n', '

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