Leonardo Lidi

A graduate of the School of the Teatro Stabile di Torino, he made his debut in Plato’s Symposium, and was then chosen by Valter Malosti to play Hamlet. In 2016 he played Agamemnon in Santa Estasi – Atridi otto ritratti di famiglia, directed by Antonio Latella. The play won the Ubu Award for Best Play 2016, the Theatre Critics’ Award and the cast was awarded the Ubu Award for Best Actor Under 35. He acted for Levan Tzuladze in Gogol’s Memorie di un pazzo and with Kostantin Bogomolov in Fedor Dostoevsky’s Delitto e Castigo. On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Natalia Ginzburg’s birth, he creates Qualcuno che tace, a trilogy dedicated to the author. In 2018 he debuted at the 46th International Theatre Festival of the Venice Biennale Spettri by Henrik Ibsen under his own direction, the play won the call for directors under 30. He then directs actor Francesco Mandelli in the monologue Proprietà e atto by Will Eno. In 2019 he directs Tennessee Williams’ Lo Zoo di Vetro. In 2020 he directs Giuseppe Verdi’s opera Falstaff and returns as director to the Venice Biennale with Caroline Baglioni’s ll lampadario, the winning text of the call for Authors Under 40, and La città morta by Gabriele D’Annunzio. He then directed Casa di Bernarda Alba by Federico Garcia Lorca. For his work as a director and playwright he received the ANCT Critics’ Prize 2020. In June 2021 he makes his debut at the Festival dei Due Mondi in Spoleto with August Strindberg’s La signorina Giulia. Since 2021 he has been deputy director and coordinator of the School for Actors of the Teatro Stabile di Torino directed by Valerio Binasco.