TOMMASO MASSIMO ROTELLA
Born in Gimigliano (CZ) in 1960, he began his professional career as an actor and continued in the direction of movement theater and dance, and finally, direction. From 1986 to 1991 he was part of the “Gruppo Danza Contemporanea Bella Hutter/Sutki” directed by Anna Sagna. Since 1990 he has conducted personal research on the movement of the actor that will lead him to collaborate with the Teatro di Dioniso (Valter Malosti Director of the school of the Teatro Stabile di Torino), the Gruppo della Rocca and the Piccolo Teatro di Milano. He is responsible for the direction and staging of various prose and opera productions. He has conducted seminars on classical theater for the DAMS – University of Turin. In 1997 he taught at the “specialization course for young actors” of the Teatro di Roma directed by Luca Ronconi. Among the shows in which he took part as a dancer: Les nuits d’été, 1986 and Ahnung, 1987, both with choreography by Anna Sagna (Ahnung was performed as the European show of the year at the 1988 edition of the American Dance Festival-North Carolina U.S.A.), Outis by L. Berio, directed by G. Vick, Teneke, directed by Ermanno Olmi, both productions of the Teatro alla Scala. He curated, among others, the choreographic movements of the productions of the Teatro di Dioniso/Valter Malosti from 1990 to 1999; in 2000 of the show La vita è sogno by Calderon produced by the Piccolo Teatro di Milano and directed by Luca Ronconi, in 2001 Chi dell’altrui si veste presto si nuda by Cimarosa produced by the Teatro alla Scala and As.Li.Co. He was an actor in Pasolini’s Porcile, directed by F. Tiezzi (1994), in A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Hamlet directed by V. Malosti (1996) and in Federico II° by Maestro Marco Tutino (2004), in “Mandorle amare” by G. Giusto (a film that won numerous awards including: Best Director, Best Screenplay and Audience Award at the “Festival del cinema invisibile” (Lecce 2006); 3rd place at the “Sky Film Fest” 2010 (Asheville, North Carolina, USA), special mention at the “Indie Film Festival” 2010, (California, USA); actor in Francesco sulla strada by Luciano Nattino (2011), Aristophanes La Pace with the Teatro degli Acerbi (2011), Hamlet for Lunch and Dinner and Closed Eyes, (2013) both productions by La Corte Ospitale directed by Oscar De Summa. He made his debut at the Astiteatro Festival 2014 with Un regalo fuori orario by Luciano Nattino, directed by Patrizia Camatel, produced by Casa degli Alfieri.
He is the director and the staging of: “La Cenerentola” by G. Rossini, “Don Giovanni” by W.A. Mozart and “Don Pasquale” by G. Donizetti, “Rigoletto” by G. Verdi directed by Maestro Claudio Desderi, he is the creator and director of the operetta: “Il colore di Cenerentola” music by Maestro Alberto Cara, co-production Teatro Regio di Torino and Teatro Comunale di Bologna.
He has been leading numerous theater workshops in Italy for years. Since 2012 he has been Artistic Director together with Silvia Gatti, of the Teatro Vecchio Mercato in Gassino T.se.
PATRIZIA CAMATEL
Born in Turin in 1980, graduated in Educational Sciences at the Univ
rsity of Turin, during her university years she began her artistic training at the Teatro delle Dieci with the director Massimo Scaglione. She then began to work steadily with the Teatro degli Acerbi (since 2000) and with the Casa degli alfieri (since 2003) of Asti, the two main private theater organizations in the Asti area. She dedicates herself mainly to prose theater, popular theater and theater for children. She leads theater workshops for children and adults.
The playwright and director Luciano Nattino directs her in various works, such as Canto per Vanzetti (2005), Scaramouche (2007), the monologue Francesca e l’Eroe. Garibaldi’s third wife tells and tells about herself (2009), on a national tour for the celebrations of the 150th anniversary of the Unification of Italy and performed at the National Museum of Caprera (La Maddalena), Ofelia non deve morire (2012).
She was directed by Oscar De Summa in the show Aristophanes La Pace (2011), by Tommaso Massimo Rotella in Mariposa by Lucia Rossetti (2013), by Elvira Frosini and Daniele Timpano in Wild West Show (2017). She is the Piedmont representative of the Collettivo Progetto Antigone, a project of national importance conducted by the director Letizia Quintavalla. The first artistic outcome of the group is Parole e Sassi. Il racconto di Antigone per le nuove generazione, Eolo Awards 2013 as best Creative Project.
As an author of theatrical texts, she experiments in the field of popular and memory-based theatre and in theatre for children. Among her most recent writing works are Siamo fatti di stelle, dedicated to Margherita Hack (2013), Even, dedicated to Etty Hillesum (2016), Soldato Mulo va alla guerra (2017), Guido suonava il violino (2019).
She made her debut in 2014 as a director for Luciano Nattino’s text Un regalo fuori orario, presented at the Asti Teatro Festival. She is co-author and director of the monologue Il testamento dell’ortolano (2020) by Antonio Catalano. After Luciano Nattino’s death in 2017, she took up his legacy and continued, within Casa degli alfieri, the line of theatrical and anthropological research of ARTEPO – Archivio Teatralità Popolare, creating dramaturgies linked to the history and traditions of the territory, interviews with witnesses, and taking care of the artistic direction of events.
