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Following his studies at the acting school of the Piccolo Teatro in Milan and collaborations with Ermanno Olmi in cinema, Maurizio Scaparro in theatre and with the Biennale di Venezia and the Teatro alla Scala, Maccarinelli began his career as a director at the age of 22. He has worked with important Italian actors including Maddalena and Giovanni Crippa, Massimo De Francovich, Johnny Dorelli, Rossella Falk, Massimo Ghini, Remo Girone, Anna Maria Guarnieri, Alessandro Haber, Francesca Inaudi, Marina Malfatti, Mariangela Melato, Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Valeria Moriconi, Umberto Orsini, Ugo Pagliai, Maria Paiato, Giuseppe Pambieri, Massimo Popolizio, Elisabetta Pozzi, Anna Proclemer, Stefania Sandrelli, Gianrico Tedeschi and Pamela Villoresi. His over one hundred performances fall mainly into three categories: Italian and foreign contemporary theatre, adaptations of classical texts, and tragedies by Euripides, six of which he staged at the Greek Theatre of Syracuse and the Olimpico in Vicenza. He has directed many shows with young graduates of the Silvio d'Amico Academy and the Experimental Film Centre, including Romanzo di Ferrara, Troilo > Cressida and Esposizione universale. He is a consultant for Mikado film and director of the Massenzio Literature Festival. He founded Artisti Riuniti in 2004 and, as the company's artistic director, realises multidisciplinary projects exploring the intersections between theatre, cinema and literature. He has received numerous prestigious awards.

Stefania Rocca is a director of several acclaimed short films, including Buenos, Osas, and L’abbraccio, which have been featured at top international festivals. Her short film The Dreamer’s Room won the prestigious “People’s Choice Award” at the 2022 Milan Fashion Film Festival. After studying at the Actor's Studio in New York, where she honed her craft in English, Stefania Rocca has become one of Italy's most eclectic and original acting talents. Her innate desire to perform in a poetic manner has led her to collaborate with internationally renowned directors such as Gabriele Salvatores, Mike Figgis, Anthony Minghella, and Abel Ferrara, as well as prominent Italian filmmakers like Cristina Comencini, with whom she worked on La bestia nel cuore—a film that earned an Academy Award nomination in 2005. On television, Stefania has appeared in popular Italian series such as Mafalda di Savoia, La Grande Famiglia, Tutti pazzi per amore, Altri tempi, and Vita da Carlo. In theatre, she has worked with acclaimed directors including Robert Lepagein Le Poligraphe, Walter Lemoli in Giovanna d'Arco, and Jerome Savary in the musical Irma la dolce. After wrapping up her successful run in the record-breaking musical Chicago, directed by Chiara Noschese, Stefania resumed the tour of La Madre di Eva, where she performs both as an actress and a director.

Debutta sulle scene a vent’anni, in Equus di Peter Shaffer, diretto da Marco Sciaccaluga. Ha lavorato con i principali registi italiani, tra cui De Lullo (La dodicesima notte di Shakespeare e Le tre sorelle di Cechov), Albertazzi (Il Cid di Corneille), Squarzina, De Fusco, Siciliano, Crivelli, Cappuccio, Andrée Ruth Shammah (I promessi sposi alla prova di Testori), lo stesso Giovanni Testori (Filippo di Alfieri), Patroni Griffi (Zio Vanja di Cechov, la cosiddetta Trilogia del teatro nel teatro di Pirandello e Fior di pisello di Bourdet), Chérif, Maccarinelli (Elettra e Oreste di Euripide Infinito fra Parentesi di Malvaldi), Stein (Medea di Euripide e Demoni di Dostoevskij). Del 1993 è la sua prima regia, L’angel, dal poema di Loi. Dal 1995, prende parte alle principali produzioni del Teatro di Roma dirette da Luca Ronconi, interpretando Quer pasticciaccio brutto de via Merulana di Gadda, Davila Roa di Baricco, I fratelli Karamazov di Dostoevskij, Questa sera si recita a soggetto di Pirandello, Alcesti di Samuele di Savinio. Per il Teatro di Genova ha recitato ne La centaura di Andreini e in Nora alla prova da “Casa di bambola”. Per il progetto ronconiano ideato per le Olimpiadi di Torino ha preso parte a Troilo e Cressida e Lo specchio del diavolo. Al Piccolo, sempre diretto da Ronconi, è stato tra gli interpreti di La vita è sogno, Lolita, I due gemelli veneziani (Premio UBU come miglior attore non protagonista), Candelaio, Prometeo incatenato, Baccanti, Rane, Peccato che fosse puttana, Professor Bernhardi, Il ventaglio, Inventato di sana pianta, Sogno di una notte di mezza estate, Il mercante di Venezia, La compagnia degli uomini. Ha recitato anche ne I pretendenti di Lagarce, ne Il gatto con gli stivali ovvero Una recita continuamente interrotta di Tieck/Tessitore, in Dettagli di Lars Norén, tutti e tre con la regia di Carmelo Rifici e ne La cimice di Majakovskij, regia Serena Sinigaglia. Con la sorella Maddalena, ha interpretato Passione, da Passio Laetitiae et felicitatis di Giovanni Testori per la regia di Daniela Nicosia. Sul grande schermo ha recitato in State buoni se potete di Luigi Magni; in televisione è stato protagonista maschile in Manon, regia di Sandro Bolchi e in Cheri, regia di Muzii.

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She graduated from the Teatro Stabile di Torino drama school under Luca Ronconi and earned a degree with honors in Political Science from the University of Turin. In the 1993/94 season, she made her debut at the Teatro Argentina in Rome, playing the role of one of the six characters in Six Characters in Search of an Author by Pirandello, directed by Mario Missiroli, alongside Gianrico Tedeschi, Gabriele Lavia, and Monica Guerritore. The following year, she played Juliet in Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare, directed by Franco Ricordi. In 1996, she returned to work with Luca Ronconi, with whom she continued collaborating until 2013. This fruitful partnership included performances at the Teatro di Roma (in Verso Peer Gynt based on Ibsen), Teatro Stabile dell’Umbria (in Memorie di una cameriera by Dacia Maraini alongside Annamaria Guarnieri), and Teatro Stabile di Genova (in La Centaura by Andreini with Mariangela Melato). She then followed Ronconi to the Piccolo Teatro di Milano, where she participated in productions such as Il Sogno by Strindberg, Lolita based on Nabokov, Ubu 2001 (which won the “Show of the Year” award), I due gemelli veneziani by Goldoni, Prometeo Incatenato by Aeschylus, Baccanti by Euripides, and Rane by Aristophanes—produced in collaboration with the Inda for the Teatro Greco di Siracusa. She also performed in Pornografia by Gombrowicz. For the Teatro Stabile di Torino, she worked in Il Gattopardo based on Tomasi di Lampedusa, directed by Andrea Battistini; in La Peste by Camus, directed by Claudio Longhi; and in the Progetto Domani series directed by Ronconi—Premio Ubu Special Project Award—which included the plays Atti di Guerra by Bond and Lo specchio del diavolo by Ruffolo. From 2006 to 2008, she was part of the Compagnia Attori Permanenti at the Teatro Stabile di Torino, Teatro Due di Parma, and Teatro di Roma, participating in productions such as Didone by Busenello, Antigone by Sophocles, Gli incostanti by Middleton (all directed by Walter Le Moli), La folle giornata o il matrimonio di Figaro by Beaumarchais (directed by Claudio Longhi), and A voi che mi ascoltate by Anagnostaki (directed by Victor Arditti). In the 2009/10 season, she performed under the direction of Peter Stein in the Ubu Award-winning production of The Demons by Dostoevsky, playing the dual roles of Dasha and Shatova. The following year, she was part of Operette Morali by Leopardi, directed by Mario Martone, which won the Ubu Award for Best Direction. In the 2015/16 season, she starred in La gatta sul tetto che scotta by Tennessee Williams, directed by Arturo Cirillo. Since 2017, she has collaborated with the Centro Teatrale Bresciano, performing in Evolution City Show and La Storia, freely inspired by E. Morante's work, with dramaturgy by M. Archetti and direction by Fausto Cabra. She also participated in projects such as Teatro Aperto, BS2020 Home Theater, and 10 poeti per resistere/10 attori che resistono. In 2018, she returned to work with Claudio Longhi, playing Militina in La Classe Operaia va in Paradiso, and participated in Le strade invisibili, Operette Morali, the Festival della Filosofia, and Poesia Festival for ERT. In the following 2019/20 season, she performed in La Commedia della Vanità by Elias Canetti, again directed by Claudio Longhi. In 2020, she was part of the cast of I manoscritti del diluvio by M. M. Bouchard at the Teatro di Napoli, directed by Carlo Cerciello. In 2021, she interpreted Ritter in Ritter, Dene, Voss by Thomas Bernhard, directed by Elena Sbardella, produced by Centro Teatrale Bresciano. In 2022, she returned to work with Cirillo in Villino bifamiliare by F. Ramondino at the Teatro di Napoli. She is a founding member of the Invisibile Kollettivo, with which she has produced L'Avversario and Open (both produced by Teatro dell’Elfo) and Come tu mi vuoi by Pirandello in a co-production with Elfo and Centro Teatrale Bresciano. In the summer of 2023, she participated in Le città invisibili by S. Quarantini and M. Archetti, directed by Fausto Cabra, a performance created for Brescia Capitale della Cultura, produced by the CTB. In the 2023/24 season, she is performing in Il caso Kaufmann by G. Grasso, directed by P. Maccarinelli, produced by CTB, Teatro Stabile di Torino, Fondazione Atlantide, Teatro Stabile di Verona, and Il Parioli, and in Atti Unici by A. Cechov, directed by S. Robello and M. Tarasco for the Fondazione Teatro Due di Parma. In the 2024/25 season, she will perform as Gandolfa in Il giuocatore by C. Goldoni, directed by R. Valerio, produced by Teatri di Pistoia, and as both an actress and director in Il teatro comico by Carlo Goldoni, re-written by V. Diana, produced by Invisibile Kollettivo.