Draft:Carlo Sciaccaluga



Carlo Sciaccaluga
BornNovember 4 1987
Genoa
NationalityItalian
Occupation(s)theatre director, actor, translator

Carlo Sciaccaluga is the son of artists (his father, Marco Sciaccaluga, was also a director, while his mother, Valeria Manari, was a set designer and costume designer). He made his debut as an actor in 2009, performing in German with Matthias Langhoff at the Landestheater in Linz, Austria. He debuted as a director at a young age, staging an adaptation of Haruki Murakami's After the Quake.

In the 2010-2011 season, he worked as an actor with the Gank company, and in 2011-2012, he acted in The Robbers by Friedrich Schiller, directed by Gabriele Lavia, who directed him in several productions over the following years. [1] In 2013, Sciaccaluga directed The Pillowman at the Teatro Stabile di Genova and translated Dealer's Choice by Patrick Marber, which premiered at the Teatro Duse in Genoa, directed by Antonio Zavatteri.[2] In the summer of 2014, he presented his Cyrano de Bergerac at the Borgio Verezzi Festival, and in 2015, he translated and directed Othello, which premiered at the Versiliana Festival, with Filippo Dini and Antonio Zavatteri in the lead roles.[3][4] During the 2017-2018 and 2018-2019 seasons, he worked as an actor with the Teatro Stabile-Teatro Nazionale of Naples. From 2016 to 2019, he was resident director at the National Experimental Theatre in Tirana, Albania.[5] In 2021, Sciaccaluga translated and directed The Conspiracy of Fiesco in Genoa by Friedrich Schiller, which was performed in Piazza San Lorenzo, Genoa, in an experimental theatrical setting that was inserted into the heart of the city.[6][7] [8]

He has directed productions for numerous private companies,[9][10] as well as for the Teatro Nazionale di Genova, the Teatro Stabile di Napoli,[11] the Teatro Stabile di Catania,[12][13] and the Turkistan Muzikalik Drama Teatri in Kazakhstan.[14][15] [16] [17] [18]

As associate director to Davide Livermore, Sciaccaluga has co-signed two productions of Verdi's Il trovatore, at the Sydney Opera House and Teatro Regio in Parma.[19] In addition to his directing career, he also works as a translator, both for his own productions and for those of other directors, with a particular focus on contemporary playwright Martin McDonagh and classical author Schiller.[20][21]

In 2024, he signed a new original adaptation of The Turn of the Screw by Henry James, produced by the Teatro Nazionale di Genova and the Teatro Carlo Felice, directed by Davide Livermore.[22][23] In 2022, he appeared in Petra, a TV series by Sky starring Paola Cortellesi, in 2023 in Blanca, a TV series starring Maria Chiara Giannetta, aired on Rai 1, and in 2024 in Citadel: Diana on Amazon Prime Video.[24]

  1. ^ "I pilastri della società. Quando il testo è più attuale della messinscena". 21 November 2013.
  2. ^ "The Pillowman Review". Cinemaeteatro.com.
  3. ^ "Othello Revives Between Shakespeare and the Gulf War". La Stampa. 19 February 2016.
  4. ^ "Review of Othello, directed by Carlo Sciaccaluga". Lo Sguardo di Arlecchino. 3 July 2015.
  5. ^ "Shume Zhurme per asgje". YouTube. 29 March 2018.
  6. ^ Fera, Maria (16 August 2021). "Interview with Carlo Sciaccaluga on The Conspiracy of Fiesco". Birdmen Magazine.
  7. ^ "The theatre takes to the streets and becomes refinedly popular". Paneacquaculture. 9 July 2021.
  8. ^ "Carlo Sciaccaluga stages Schiller's Genoa". L’Invito. 12 June 2021.
  9. ^ "Theatre must go back to being theatre, Interview with Carlo Sciaccaluga". Vanity Class. 23 May 2022.
  10. ^ "Sciaccaluga: "il teatro deve tornare a fare il teatro" (Pt.2)". 26 May 2022.
  11. ^ "Teatro di Napoli press release: Il dito, directed by Carlo Sciaccaluga". Teatro di Napoli.
  12. ^ "Interview with Carlo Sciaccaluga". pianetagenoa1893.net. 16 November 2022.
  13. ^ "APPUNTAMENTO a LONDRA – regia Carlo Sciaccaluga".
  14. ^ "Review of I racconti della peste, directed by Carlo Sciaccaluga". Sipario.it.
  15. ^ "The Search for a Monster Between Dream and Irony". L'Invito. 14 March 2024.
  16. ^ "Innovative strategies of the Turkestan Musical and Drama Theatre". Central Asian Journal of Art Studies.
  17. ^ "Борте, любимая жена Чингисхана".
  18. ^ "Əн әлемінің падишасы, вальс короліне арналған қойылым".
  19. ^ "Il Trovatore". 5 July 2022.
  20. ^ Carlo Tomeo (4 February 2024). ""Una mano mozzata a Spokane" at Teatro Filodrammatici – Press release". CarloTomeo Teatro e Teatro.
  21. ^ Davide Sannia (November 2022). "Maria Stuarda by Davide Livermore: Marinoni and Pozzi Surprising Protagonists". Krapp's Last Post.
  22. ^ "Il doppio Giro di vite di Livermore. Tra prosa e opera lirica".
  23. ^ Giudici, Elvio (2024). ""Il giro di vite" in prosa e nell'opera di Britten: suggestioni e inquietudini doppie, nell'inconsueta inzugurazione fuori sede del Carlo Felice". Classic Voice. November 1st: 78.
  24. ^ "'Citadel: Diana' Review: Matilda de Angelis' Spy Spin-off Lacks Thrills". Collider. 9 October 2024.