Luigi Squarzina, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Luigi Squarzina

Italian dramatist

Date of Birth: 18-Feb-1922

Place of Birth: Livorno, Tuscany, Italy

Date of Death: 08-Oct-2010

Profession: screenwriter, actor, writer, playwright, theater director

Nationality: Italy

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius


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About Luigi Squarzina

  • Luigi Squarzina (18 February 1922 – 8 October 2010) was an Italian theatre dramatist and director. Born in Livorno, Squarzina studied in Rome, at the Liceo Classico Tasso, where he had Vittorio Gassman as classmate.
  • He got a degree cum laude in Law, then he graduated as a director at the Silvio d’Amico Academy of Dramatic Arts.
  • He debuted as a stage director in 1944 with an adaptation of Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men.
  • In 1949, Squarzina debuted as a playwright with The Universal Exhibition, which was never represented in Italy due to censorship.
  • After directing the Teatro Ateneo in Rome, in 1952 he co-founded with Vittorio Gassman the Teatro d'arte italiano ("Italian Theatre of Art").
  • Squarzina later directed the Teatro Stabile in Genoa between 1972 and 1976 and later the Teatro Stabile in Rome, from 1976 to 1983.Squarzina was also active as a scholar and as a director of the theater section of the Encyclopedia of Performing Arts by Silvio D'Amico.
  • He was also an occasional actor, and for his debut performance in Francesco Rosi's The Mattei Affair he won the Silver Ribbon for best new actor.

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