About Me.
Resume
I am a 5 years-experienced Stage Manager highly organized with a great interpersonal skills, I like working in fast paced and dynamic environments. I am currently working internationally in large-scale productions of opera, ceremonies and events.
I have a passionate and active interest in performing arts, since I started to practice theatre during my High School and University in Rome. I have found my professional path with the awareness that culture is part of our intellectual decisions and individual identity. This brought me to focus my career on discovering and learning how a production is made of. This interest and curiosity evolved into a passion for Stage Management through my practical experiences during my BA as an Assistant Stage Manager and Assistant Director at the Rome Opera House and as a Production Assistant at the Auditorium Parco della Musica in Rome. I have graduated at "La Sapienza" University of Rome in Performing Arts with a votation of 108/110 discussing a thesis entitled "Cultural redevelopment of Rome through performing arts from the 1970's until today: from the Teatro Tenda to the Auditorium Parco della Musica", with interviews to the former Major of Rome (Walter Veltroni), the former Councillor of Culture in Rome Giovanna Marinelli and the CEO of Musica per Roma Foundation (Auditorium Parco della Musica) José Ramon Dosal.
After my experience at the Rome Opera House, I was selected for my first job abroad at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2018 with the Pleasance Theatre Trust, become one of the biggest and most highly respected venues at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, with an international profile, specialised in comedies. This opportunity allowed me to work on several productions from the Get-in to the Get-out, following the Techinal period and the shows run. Specifically, I worked for the first two weeks of the festival in two Fringe theatres (20 shows in total per day), then I followed only the bigger one (Pleasance "Above") for the two weeks left. In terms of my duties, I was responsible for the whole festival for the running of the venue "Pleasance Above" as a technician (stage/lighting/sound), developing my technical skills, flexibility and spirit of adaptability. One of the 10 shows, Rose Matafeo: Horndog, has been awarded as "Best Comedy Show" at the Edinburgh Comedy Awards 2018. Other shows included Ed Gamble: Blizzard (BBC Two, Comedy Central and Sky) Felicity Ward: Busting a nut (Nomination for "Best Comedy Show" at the Edinburgh Comedy Awards 2018), Romeo and Juliet, Dracula, the clown show Better Together (winner of the Sit-Up Audience Engagement Award 2018) and many other shows.
EDUCATION
2019 Master's Degree in Stage and Production Management (University of Surrey, UK)
2017 Bachelor's Degree in Performing Arts
(La Sapienza University of Rome, Italy)
AWARDS & CERTIFICATIONS
2019 Internationalisation Award 2019
(University of Surrey, UK)
2018 First Aid Certification
2018 Fire Warden Training Certification
SKILLS & LANGUAGES
Score Reading
Prop sourcing, making and maintenance
Crowd management
Experience working with aerialists
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Premiere Pro CC
Running fit ups/get outs, packing trucks
Carpentry, painting and photography
ETC Ion Lighting desk control
Native Italian
Fluent English
Basic Spanish
Basic Russian
Soon after I finished in Edinburgh, I started my Master's Degree in Stage and Production Management at the University of Surrey (Guildford School of Acting), UK. My sound Stage Management formation has been completed with practical experiences in several productions such as "Betty Blue Eyes: the Musical" (Bellairs Theatre, UK), "Shrek: The Musical" (Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, UK) and "Nell Gwynn" (PATS Studio Theatre, UK), Can You HearT Me? (Lauro Rossi Theater, Macerata Opera Festival, Italy) and the big concert "100Cellos" (Sferisterio Arena, Macerata Opera Festival, Italy) . During my MA year, after my work placement with English National Opera for the production of "Paul Bunyan" (Olivier Award nomination 2019 for Best Outstanding Achievement in Opera), I have been offered from ENO a position as an Assistant Stage Manager for the production of "Orpheus and Eurydice" (directed by Wayne McGregor) at the London Coliseum that opened the upcoming season 2019/2020. Before restarting in London with ENO, I have been offered my first role with Balich Worldwide Shows as an Assistant Stage Manager for the "Opening Ceremony of the 30th Summer Universiade" at the San Paolo Stadium (Naples, Italy), managing one of the two show main entrances (VOM), cueing mass cast, running the Olympic torch and caring of a zone of the Field of Play. All these commitments allowed me to be awarded the "Internationalisation Award" from the University of Surrey, taking in consideration also my following work with Balich Worldwide Show in Saudi Arabia as a Stage Manager for the unprecedented show "Leila, the Land of Imagination" (Riyadh Season Grand Finale Show) at the King Fahd International Stadium, staged in Riyadh on January 2020.
