CASA DEGLI ARTISTI

ELENA GIGLIOTTI
Actress, director.

Graduated from the acting school of Teatro Stabile di Genova, she has trained and been directed by, among others: Valerio Binasco, Giancarlo Sepe, Emma Dante, Gabriele Vacis. Since 2009, she has been the founder and the director of Compagnia nO (Dance first. Think later), and is the president of ‘R.A.C.’ (regist_ a confronto), the first association for theatre directors in Italy, for which she organizes artistic, ethical and training activities.
She has had numerous experiences in cinema and television, and has been directed by Klaudia Reinicke, Daniele Vicari, Michele Alhaique, Margherita Ferri, Giuseppe Bonito, Dario Aita, Fulvio Risuleo, Paolo Sorrentino, and starred in the film ‘L’invenzione della neve’, directed by Vittorio Moroni, for which she won the ‘Best Female Actress Award’ at the ValdarnoCinema Film Festival, the ‘Carlo Mazzacurati Award’ for Best Character, and a nomination for the ‘Ciak d’oro 2023’.

FLORIAN BORCHMEYER
Playwright, director.

He studied Romance literature in Berlin, Havana and Paris. In 2006 he obtained a doctorate in Philosophy with a dissertation on the chronicles of the New World in the 16th century. Since 2001 he works as a literary critic for Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and as a cultural journalist for German public television channels (ARD, ZDF, 3Sat, ARTE). Between 2011 and 2019 he was head of dramaturgy at the Schaubühne theatre in Berlin where he now curates the Festival International New Drama (FIND), the most important platform for international contemporary theatre in the German capital. Since 2007, he has been curator of the international programme of Munich’s Filmest.
For Fondazione Teatro Due, he curated the adaptation of the novel ‘Second-hand Time’ by S. Aleksievic’s; was a member of the jury for the second edition of the project ‘Mezz’ore d’autore’; and collaborates as a lecturer in the Casa degli Artisti, the higher education course for theatrical professionals.

FRANCESCA DELLA MONICA
Singer, composer, music theorist.

Considered to be one of the most influential vocal pedagogues on the European scene, over the years she developed her own methodology for studying the voice, linked to the stage, by working with the most important theatrical directors, composers and musicians. As a vocal performer of new music, she has always dealt with a broad repertoire ranging from the Baroque to the present day.
With Fondazione Teatro Due she recently collaborated in ‘The Suppliants’ by Euripide directed by Serena Sinigaglia, and for years has been on the academic staff of the Casa degli Artisti, the higher education course for theatrical professionals.

MASSIMILIANO FARAU
Director.

After graduating in Literature, he graduated in Direction at Accademia Nazionale d’Arte Drammatica “Silvio D’Amico”; later, he perfected his training at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London and attended the ‘Classe de Maitrise de Mise en Scène’ of the Centre Europeen de la Jeune Mise en Scène in Pélussin. He teaches acting at Accademia Nazionale d’Arte Drammatica ‘Silvio D’Amico’ and previously taught at Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, the New York Film Academy, the International Centre ‘La Cometa’, the Bernstein School of Musical Theatre, ‘Prima del Teatro – Scuola Europea per l’Arte dell’Attore’ and the National School of Drama in New Delhi.
For Fondazione Teatro Due, he has directed, among others: ‘Love’s Labour’s Lost’ by Shakespeare, ‘Lungs’  by Duncan Macmillan, ‘Krapp’s Last Tape’ by Samuel Beckett, ‘The Memory of Water’ by Shelagh Stephenson.
He also carries out an intense activity as a translator of theatrical texts.

ALESSANDRO NIDI
Composer, conductor, pianist.

Since the early 1980s, he has collaborated with some of the most important cultural institutions in his city, Parma, such as Fondazione Teatro Due, Teatro delle Briciole and ‘Arturo Toscanini’ Symphony Orchestra, working on several productions, as author, composer, arranger and musician, contaminating pop with classical music. In 1987, he conducted the world premiere of Franco Battiato’s opera ‘Genesi’ . He composed and performed the music for the cult show ‘L’Istruttoria’, which has been on stage for over forty years. He collaborates with various artists from the world of opera, pop and drama theatre. He has composed operas, oratorios, musicals and stage music for various Italian and European theatres.
He also carries out intensive teaching activities in schools of all levels. In 2007, he started a workshop on conducting for children with the Orchestra of Fondazione Toscanini, which he conceived and conducted.