Team
_ FOUNDING MEMBERS
Director & Choreographer
Luca Villa is a director and choreographer. He is currently assistant director and choreographer at Theater Nordhausen, Thuringia. He has twice received the L.A.T.A. Award in collaboration with Elliot Ortiz as associate choreographer and curator. He has experience as a director, as a movement director for plays (Neutrality, Taming of Kate), as a choreographer for musicals and operas (Turandot, Xanadu, Wizard of Oz) and as a dancer (Die Lustige Witwe, at the Cologne Opera). He has worked with Disney Cruise Line as a dancer and actor, where he competed for months with an audience of more than 5,000 children.
Playwright & Dramaturg
Sara Santucci is a bilingual (Italian and English) actress and playwright who graduated from the Atlantic Acting School in New York. She has worked on the off-Broadway circuit, at theaters such as The Players Theater The Producers Club Atlantic Stage 2 and off-off Broadway. In Italy she collaborated among others with the Ergo Sum company, participating in the Italian tour of "Apologia di Socrate" with Enrico Lo Verso and directed by Alessandra Pizzi and played Viola in "Baron in the Trees" directed by Francesco Tarsi. With the Theater Turnings company she takes part in the creation and writing processes of new shows, deepening her study of dance and movement.
Dance Captain & Rehearsal Director
Sara Grassi is a dancer and performer. She currently works as a dancer and performer at Europa-Park delighting audiences of all ages and backgrounds! She studied at the most prestigious academies in Europe and then moved to New York where she graduated from the Peridance Center on a scholarship. Her collaborations include working as a soloist for CKDC (Fringe Festival 2022) and as a prima ballerina for Long Island City Ballet and Salvatore La Russa Dance Theatre. For years she has been part of the Theatre Turnings company with which she has devised several shows and deepened her study of acting.
Music & Rehearsal Director
Alessia Seclì is an italian performer and choreographer based in New York City.
After finishing her training in Milan (Italy) Alessia moved to New York City in order to pursue her dream to work professionally in the performing arts.
Alessia starred in the role of Clarisse in the LATA winner show 5 Paths to Uptown Stories. Alessia was also recently playing the role of Maggie in Working- A Musical and Circe in The Balcony for The Ritual Cabaret.
Other theatre credits include: Pippin (Fastrada), Hair (ensemble), Xanadu (associate choreographer), Evelyn Evelyn (Evelyn), Someone in the crowd (Mia), Taming of Kate (Baptista), Chorus Line, Uninvited Waters and Yes!
_ COLLABORATORS
Light Designer
Connor Divers is a resident London theater technician. He has been a touring technical director for Camp Phoenix, a production electrician for medium-sized theaters, and is currently a lighting technician for Chichester Festival Theatre, where he works with major British companies (Cameron Mackintosh's Oliver!, Frantic Assembly's House Party, Punch Drunk, and others)
Costume Designer
Miriam Razza is a MuA and Image Consultant from Milan, where she worked in theaters as a makeup artist, after graduating from the Accademia Teatro della Scala, to then explor photography and fashion. Following an hoc certification, she is also involved in Armochromy and Color Analysis, which she then applies in the theatrical field.
The strong passion for aesthetics and the research of beauty mixed with the infinite love for theater, which has always been part of her artistic career, create an original style capable of integrating theater and fashion.
Director -Taming of Kate
Emma Denson is an Alabama-born, Brooklyn-based director and playwright. She is the inaugural recipient of the Drama League Rose Fellowship, which will take her to London to assistant direct the world premiere of Never Let Me Go and direct the Rose Youth Theatre in a workshop of her play, Of Age (both performances will take place at the Rose Theatre). Most recently, she directed a staged reading of the new musical Runaway Home, starring Melissa Gilbert, Michael Park, and Abigail Breslin. She was a 2023 Berkeley Rep Ground Floor Artist, she worked with LeAnne Howe and Colm Summers on The Keening (Co-Deviser/Associate Director). In June, Emma won Best Short at Downtown Urban Arts Festival 2023 for her play, Otis and Anna, which she wrote and directed. In January 2023, she directed a reading of the bilingual Ukrainian play, Hunger (which she co-adapted with Maria Rewakowicz) at Irish Arts Center for Origin Theatre Company’s First Irish Festival; a second reading took place at the Ukrainian Museum in May. She was recently a director-in-residence at Mississippi State University. Currently, she is the Associate Director at Origin Theatre Company.
_ COLLABORATORS
Songwriter & Performer
Valentina Preziosi, stage name Vale'n, is a singer and Musical Theater performer. She worsk as a vocalist for public and private events in and around Milan. In 2021 she published her album "2020", followed by several collaborations with emerging, local and international artists. She is also the lead singer of the band Simple Jack.
Performer
Safia Zappa is an actress, 27 years old, graduate of the M.A.S. Professional Academy in Milan. She continued her studies at the Escola Luthier Dansa in Barcelona (tip-tap) and in Milan with Massimo Navone, Teatro dei Borgia, Roberto Latini and Sara Fenoglio. She worked at the Piccolo Teatro Strehler in the show Eleusi directed by Davide Enia and for the director Matteo Gastaldo in the musicals Legally Blonde and A Midsummer Night's Dream - Contemporary Opera.
Performer
Margherita Pezzella worked with Maurizio Crozza for “Fratelli di Crozza”, and as Adrians with Adriano Celentano. She performed as lead voice in Macbeth at the “Teatro alla Scala” and as a chorister in numerous other theater. Her first short film as director and actress was nominated for "best soundtrack" at the French festival "Cannes Shorts".
Dramaturg & Directing Consultant
Chris Moran is an Irish director and playwright. He has an MFA in Theater Directing from Lir Dublin (2019).
His experiences include "Bucket List" at the Schaubuhne in Berlin, The Song Collector (Galway Theater Festival, 2022), Piaf (Gate Theatre, 2022), Haunted / If These Wigs Could Talk (Abbey Theatre, 2022), Faultline (Gate Theatre, Dublin Theater Festival, 2019).