Meet the young rivolutionary artists selected for R-Ev!

He has started to experiment with letters since he was a child and started learning drama while he was completing his secondary studies, specialising in the arts. He studied acting in Implosivo Artes Escénicas and was part of the first generation of graduates of the Tecnicatura Universitaria de Dramaturgia (EMAD-FHCE). One of his most important experiences is the production of his play RUIDO in Teatro Solís, this play has also won Noveles y Notables Award (CCE) and Florencio Sánchez Award (new artist category), thanks to his work on dramaturgy and direction. He experiments with documentary dramaturgy and poetry through performative theatre. He has also obtained mentions in a variety of literary awards, such as: Concurso Internacional de poesía joven Pablo Neruda and Premio Literario Juan Carlos Onetti.

Nadia began her training at Fabrizio De Andrè school of arts, alongside dance and body movement studies, a duo which makes the core of her artistic research. In 2010 she joined the Accademia di Belle Arti in Sassari and then decided to continue her studies on body movement by attending the International school of physical theatre LIV in Bologna. In 2015 she moved to Spain where she graduated from CAU, the school of circus and theatre of Granada. Afterwards she joined the collective Theatrecrac, which gave her the opportunity to settle in France, where she was introduced to the world of puppetry.
Her scenic proposals explore the poetic possibilities of dance, physical theatre, puppetry and gestural theatre, combining both manual and physical / movement skills, with the aim to recreate a poetic and surreal scenario.

I’m Yara: a visual artist, composer and puppet-maker. Through my work, I attempt to build healthier rapport with the existential ennui that the mundane brings while navigating feelings of unease and the surreal. I examine what it means to live inside a body during a strange digital age that merges two parallel realities.
Growing up, I undertook a decade of classical piano and music theory before incorporating different instruments into my sonic practice including the theremin, accordion, synthesizer, kinderklavier, music box and bowed metallophone.
In the past year, I’ve been working on a series of audiovisual vignettes that I create through my video work and musical compositions. I also experiment with glitch work and data-moshing, which involves the corruption of video files in an attempt to yield a specific visual outcome.

Rafael Ayres, best known by the recording alias Van Ayres, is a Portuguese sound artist/performer. His work focuses in blurring the performative guidelines of sound practice. With a particular interest in live performance as the template for the unfolding of new expressive universes Van Ayres questions the ever-changing participant’s experience of reality.
This ongoing investigation into performance or the lack of it is maintained by blending different art techniques and guidance that music, theatre, audiovisual and artforms all around provide and based on an idea of genreless expression.
Audio works like Sorry Stars or Final Spirit evoke feelings of uncertain nostalgia and psychic visions into futuristic scenarios.

Bruna Bonanno is graduated in Philosophy and in Playwriting. She won the call of mare culturale urbano called Camp degli autori and is selected by Residenza Idra for an Advanced course of acting and playwriting. First study of her play mete (published by Cue Press) was shown at the Piccolo Teatro’s Tramedautore Festival in Milan. She works as playwright for the project Caravansaray, sponsored by Outis, national centre of contemporary playwriting, and with Teatro Metastasio of Prato for the project GLA. She also works as dramaturg for Èidos, dancing performance winner of the call Intercettazioni, and with mare culturale urbano and corps citoyen for the play Gli Altri لخر ی ن  which will be staged at Santarcangeo Festival 2021.

Elvira Buonocore is a playwright. She is currently attending the second year at Bellini Teatro Factory, the Dramatic Art Academy of Bellini Theatre in Naples. She is training as a author alongside an intense acting experience, with a special focus on site-specific theatrical  forms and linked to the dialogue with contemporary works of art. Among the most formative encounters are the ones with Francesco Silvestri and Enzo Moscato.
In 2020 she took part in Napoli Teatro Festival with her work Purpacci [quelli che non saranno]. In 2019 she won the Dante Cappelletti Award for La Vacca. She is also a finalist in Teatri del Sacro with Mia madre sopra tutto. Since 2013 she is part of Compagnia Teatro Grimaldello.

My name is Miryam Chilà and I’m an actress. I love art since I was a child, I play guitar and theatre is my deepest passion, my profession. In 2014 I graduated in DAMS, while attending theatre workshops. In 2015 I was admitted to the Civica Accademia d’Arte Drammatica Nico Pepe in Udine where I graduated in 2018, having also the opportunity to work with Masters of the national and international scene, laying the foundations of my artistic research path.
I work with two theatre companies, Scena Nuda and Natiscalzi DT; with the latter, I experiment new languages close to the ones of Dance theatre. I am currently working with two collegues on a project about the female universe. I am curious, open-minded and always looking for new challenges.

From a young age Emiliano Dionisi has trained as a director, playwriter, teacher and actor. He graduated as a Playwright from the Universidad Buenos Aires and from the Circus Arts carrer of the Universidad Nacional de San Martin.
In 2009 he founded his own theatre company Compañía criolla, winning several national and international awards and presenting the shows: Recuerdos a la hora de la siesta (book author and director) in Teatro General San Martin, Huesito caracú (director) in the emblematic Teatro Picadero and Persona (book author and director) and others. Dionis’s works are represented in Mexico, Uruguay, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Dominican Republic and Spain and have been published by LOSADA publishing house and the Faculty of Philosophy.

Tiago Felipe graduated in Drama from the Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema in Lisbon and studied Physical Theatre at the Real Escuela Superior de Arte Dramático in Madrid.
As na actor, he has been directed by Joaquim Benite, Mario Mattia Giorgietti, Jorge Silva Melo, Francisco Salgado, Carlos J. Pessoa, among others. In 2018, he founded Sui Generis: a theatre company, in which he works as an actor, author, and creator. With his company, he has written and created several shows, including Esta Noite, Morfeu!, The Butcher Show and Horizonte, between others.

Born in Naples, theatre and writing have always been his passion. After graduating in Philosophy, he attended the Master in Playwriting and Screenwriting of Accademia D’arte Drammatica Silvio d’Amico in Rome, then the Course of High Education Casa degli Artisti at TeatroDue in Parma. He wrote several plays for Michela Lucenti’s Balletto Civile, such as Bad Lambs, that won the Danza&Danza Award in 2017.
In the meantime, he has worked on some personal projects such as Promoter, presented at CTB’s TeatroAperto review curated by Elisabetta Pozzi. In 2019 he wrote the script for La Rana e le Nuvole, staged at the 45° Festival della valle d’Itria. Lastly, with the play Il Serraglio he took part in Mezz’ore d’Autore, a review by TeatroDue.

My name is Carlo Geltrude and I’m from Naples. Together with a group of artists and professionals of the sector, in 2012, in the Sanità district of Naples, we founded the Nuovo Teatro Sanità, a community theatre of which I am the vice president. In 2015 I joined the first three years of the school of the Teatro Stabile in Naples, directed by Luca De Filippo.
Since then, a series of important experiences both as an actor and as a director: a tour throughout Italy with La Paranza dei bambini by Roberto Saviano and Mario Gelardi, the Nuovo imaie Award (talent incentive) at the Festival of Two Worlds in Spoleto, the project I kiwi di Napoli that debuted in Germany, passed through France and finally arrived at the Teatro Mercadante in Naples, the traveling show Tur de vasc, participations in the Materadio Festival, the semi-final of the Premio Scenario and the festival Trame d’Autore of the Piccolo Teatro in Milan.
In the last period, I have been preparing my first work for streaming as a director, La giostra del Moro, which will debut for the Napoli Teatro Festival, whose study was presented in the semifinals of the Dante Cappelletti Award.

She gratuated at the Accademia Nazionale D’Arte Drammatica Silvio d’Amico in Rome. She debuted in the play Santa Estasi, directed by Antonio Latella. In 2016, she won the Ubu Award as best actress under 35. Two years later, she acted in Sei, directed by Scimone Sframeli’s Company. Currently working as an author and director, Lucia Calamaro selected her script for Scritture, festival of the new voices of Italian dramaturgy. She also works as an acting teacher.

Hashem Hashem is a poet, writer, editor and performer based in Beirut. He holds an MA in gender and sexuality studies from SOAS University of London, and is part of local and regional queer and feminist groups. His essays and translations have been published in a number of newspapers, magazines and websites. He has worked as a researcher and advisor at multiple organizations and institutions, including the American University of Beirut and FRIDA:  Young Feminist Fund.
He is a regular performer at poetry nights, and has been invited to participate in various art festivals abroad, including Mexico City, Kathmandu and Belfast. In 2018, he collaborated with Baladi dancer Alexandre Paulikevitch in The Last Distance performance which they presented at Station and Ashkal Alwan in Beirut, in addition to Outburst Queer Arts Festival in Belfast. His poetry is featured in And We Chose Everything, a poetry anthology published by Turning Point Books. In 2019, Hashem was awarded the AFAC fund to support his upcoming performance titled Night Prayer in collaboration with Alexandre Paulikevitch. In 2021, he was also selected for the ArtEvolution program by Goethe Institut in Lebanon. He is currently working on his first Arabic poetry collection titled Class Hatred.

Graduated as an Audiovisual Producer from ORT University and as an actor with the Bachelor of Dramatic Arts from EMAD, he has also studied literature, playwriting and film script, acting and directing between Uruguay and Argentina, and studied as a Camera Assistant in Uruguay Campus Film.
He has directed and written three short films (The dissected seagull, Rails and skins and The pig’s hour), four theatical processes (Conversations with a dead man, The Commensals, The Combers, The Marginals Marginals) and has been a video editor of other productions (videoclips, shows and shortfilms). As an actor he has performed on conventional theatre and street theatre (The Tibia family, The place where mammals die), opera (Hansel and Gretel, Macbeth) and cinema (Hiu Sha Lai, Routes on February).
He has been teaching assistant of Styles and Pure Genres at EMAD and of Audiovisual Language at ORT. Currently is teaching assistant in Pablo Ferre’s Cinema Courses and teacher of several theatre courses for children and professional actors.
On 2018 he has published his own and first book so-called The Alter Ego’s Days. He was Assistant Director to Sergio Blanco on When you pass over my tomb. He’s currently in rehearsal for The Myth of a Woman without a name.

Mauro Lamanna, actor, director and author, is the founder and artistic director of the Divina Mania collective. Trained in the most important Italian art institutes, such as the National Film School – Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia and the Piccolo Teatro in Milan, he continued his studies between New York and Shanghai.
In theatre, he worked as an actor with artists such as Giancarlo Giannini and Franco Zeffirelli. He directed Against freedom, based on the script of the renowned Catalan writer Esteve Soler, presented during Primavera dei Teatri festival as part of the Europe Connection project. In cinema, he worked alongside Oscar winners Danny Boyle, Donald Shutterland and Hilary Swank.
He is the director of several music videos in which he deals with the complex issues of modern society; among these, the work inspired by the tragic story of DJ Fabo Tutte le volte, selected in many international festivals. He’s currently working on Of the father and of the son, short film of which he’s author and director.

Born on Chiloé Island, at the age of 17, he moved to Santiago to study at the University of Chile, where he received his Bachelor of Arts degree. He was invited to Bolivia, Buenos Aires and Brazil to work with Latin American LGBTIQ+ performers. Since then, he begins to produce plays and a collection of poems.
His work vindicates the hybrid between poetry and theatre from the performatic point of view. He has been published in New York, Peru and Chile, where he has won several awards for his writing. Since 2017 he has been working in Netherlands, Germany and France, in residencies with artists linked to dance, visual arts and cinema. His latest work generates great controversy in the Chilean press due to censorship by homophobic groups linked to the Evangelical Church. His current project is about HIV and the Latin viral processes.

Eva was born in Kavala and moved to Athens to study Law and Drama. Following the success as an actress, in 2018 she wrote and directed her first play. VARDA BENE, a doc-theatre performance about fishermen, lost traditions, myths and a love that hurts, was met with great success in International Filippi Festival and established she is rather a creator than an actress.
In 2019, she wrote and directed OneDayWIthOut – a play about internet addiction, for the teenage stage of Theatro Technis. In 2020, she attended the film-making course of FAMU International, and shot her first short film, Blue Sunday. She also co-wrote the play Une belle equipe, which explores the painful path that a terrorism survivor has to follow in order to re-gain his life.

Davide Pascarella is an actor, playwright and director. In 2017, he was assistant to Francesca Macrì on Romeo e Giulietta; in 2018 he joined RezzaMastrella to create Bacio during Biennale College in Venice; in 2019 had his debut in Amleto. Between 2018 and 2021 he studied with Gabriele Vacis, Alessio Romano, Fausto Paravidino, Valerio Binasco, Michele Di Stefano, graduating from the Teatro Stabile in Turin.
His first play, Questa lettera sul pagliaccio morto, premiered at the Piccolo Teatro in Milan, in 2020. His second play, Appunti per un testo sulla fine del mondo, won the Nuove Sensibilità 2.0 Award at the end of the same year; and his staging of Lemons by Sam Steiner was a finalist in Leo de Berardinis Award. In November he’ll be the playwright for Francesco Micheli’s Medea in Corinto.

Matthieu Pastore was born in Lyons, France. After studying Italian and drama, he joined the Piccolo Teatro di Milano academy from which he graduated as an actor in 2011. He mainly worked in Italy, participating in productions directed by Damiano Michieletto, Laura Curino, Bruno Fornasari, Andrea de Rosa and such, also working as a translator and an interpreter. In 2012, he won the Hystrio Award for the Theatrical Vocation.
In 2018, he started elaborating his own projects, as a playwright and a director. In 2020, his first work, The Dinner. not a musical, not at all, won the Jury Award and the Audience Award in the Théâtre 13 competition for young directors. His current project is based on the mythological character Tiresias.

GianMarco Porru lives and works in Milan. His artistic research is linked to cultural narratives, in particular written and oral accounts within a specific community, and to stories told through images that emerge in popular material culture, folklore, community and religious rituals as well as in vernacular museography and its displays.
The research carried out on these discursive and visual archives often originates from an interest in anthropological and ethnographical methodologies and later develops into the creation of performative actions, videos and photographs. Within this framework, an interest emerges in human attitudes towards natural elements and the way in which this relationship has created systems of belief and organizational patterns.

Patricio Ruiz is a writer, director and performer. He graduated in Drama from EMAD, attended a Master in Drama at UNA and is professor at UNA of Dramaturgy of puppets and objects. He participated in th international workshops PANORAMA SUR 2015 and A reinvençao do Cabaré and has received several awards such as the Tomás Terry Award 2016, First prize of the National Fund of Arts 2017, Second prize of the Germán Rozenmacher Award for new dramaturgy 2018 and the Mobility scolarship of the National Fund of Arts 2019.
His plays have been premiered in national and international festivals and theatres, translated into French, Portuguese and English and published by Ediciones Encendidas, Universidad Nacional del Sur, Libros del Rojas, Parador. He is also a performer of the band Putite de mamá and the group Comparsa drag.

I was born and grew up in Sicily. Classical studies introduced me to the physical, poietic and playful dimension of theatre. I chose to study Theatre and Performance Theory at the university and to undergo an acting training programme at Teatro Stabile in Catania. I worked with several directors and a group of actors, exploring the relationship between Logos and Body through site-specific performances that brought us closer to the audience.
As a director, I cooperate with artists of my same age. I browse through contemporary drama and its mixture of genres, I investigate the interaction between different media, the stage and the audience, I study the expressive and communicative potential of the body through the languages of Commedia dell’arte, dance theatre, the grotesque and the absurd. I currently work as a director within the GLA, under the artistic direction of Massimiliano Civica.

Laura studied Physical Theatre at École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq in Paris & at LISPA (currently named Arthaus Berlin). Her inspirations are mask theatre, Kungfu, dance & circus. She began a 1-year formation in clowning, led by Gozde Atalay Kokkoris, that resulted in 7 shows in Avaton Theatre, Athens. In Familie Flöz’s Summer Academy, she deepened her skills in mask play.
As a dancer, she worked and trained with choreographers Patricia C. May, Maya Carroll, Christina Souglioutzi and Athanasia Kannelopoulou. Laura is working on her Solo Körper&Andere, which will be premiered in autumn 2021, with Maya Carroll.
She has also worked with Theatre Derweil (DE), BAIT Theatre (UK), pupeteer Evi A. Brygmann (DE). Since 2015 she teaches Theatre & Social Circus in Greece, Germany & Switzerland.

Leonardo Tomasi is an actor and author active in theatre and video. He worked for Sardegna Teatro together with Guido de Monticelli, Alessandro Serra, Giorgina Pi, Marco Sanna. He collaborates with Batisfera Teatro, Lucido Sottile and Effimero Meraviglioso, with whom he participates in European artistic residencies. He did voice-over for commercials, recorded audio-books with Quarantacinque and recently worked for Radio Tre directed by Roberto Cavosi.
He had training experiences with Frosini/Timpano, Manuele Morgese, Mario Perrotta, Lucia Calamaro, Terzopolous, Motus, Scimone/Sframeli and others. He participated in Emilia Romagna Teatro‘s advanced training course with the Belgian company Laika. In 2020 he won the Centottanta Award for the best short film.

Originally from Greece, Lyto Triantafyllidou is a theatre maker, interested in exploring new ideas, colorful stories and unfamiliar cultures, through creating theatre works that expand an audience’s moral imagination. She holds a MFA in Directing from The New School for Drama in New York City and a BA degree from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki’s School for Drama.
She has presented her works in different festivals and platforms in United States, UK, Israel and Greece. Lyto’s latest work includes a production of Powder Her Face by Thomas Ades at the Greek National Opera, on which she’s been an associate director, the performance Call Elsewhere, based on the play Elsewhere: a play for an audience of one by Stav Palti Negev and presented at New York Live Arts, as well as the online audio performance Talk Tomorrow, that she wrote and directed during the Covid19 pandemic.