Speakers:
Chiara Durazzini is a native of Florence, Italy, and has been working as a theatre actress both in Italy and in Boston. She is the co-founder and artistic director of the Commedia dell’Arte Troupe Pazzi Lazzi for which she performs, teaches and directs. She also often collaborates with other local theatre companies and works as a voice-over talent. She obtained her Master’s degree in Art, Music and Theatre at the University of Bologna, Italy.
Emanuele Capoano is one of the co-founders of the Commedia dell’Arte troupe Pazzi Lazzi, after directing and performing for the company since 2013, he is now focusing on playwriting. He has over 10 years of theatre experience, both in Italy and in Boston, and was the radio co-host in the comedian show called L’Italia Chiamò; he also did voice-over work for News in Slow Italian, a program for Italian language learners. He now lives in New York City and works for the Italian Cultural Institute.
Marco Remo Zanelli holds a Bachelor of Arts in Television Production from Emerson College and a Master of Arts in Italian linguistics, literature and cinema from Middlebury College. He is both an Italian instructor and translator as well as an actor and director. He has studied acting both in Los Angeles and in Boston. As actor and/or director, he has worked on productions of Twelfth Night, All’s Well That Ends Well, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Romeo and Juliet, The Tempest, The Three Sisters, Amadeus, Sweeney Todd, The Odd Couple, Questi Fantasmi by Eduardo De Filippo (ImproNati) and Isabella Unmasked (Pazzi Lazzi Troupe). He has translated academic, theatrical, historical, journalistic, and television works into English for PBS, documentary filmmaker Marcellino De Baggis, historian Nicola Labanca (University of Siena), Paoletti Softdrinks (Rome), The Ivory Press, and The Forum for the Problems of Peace and War, Walter Valeri (Harlequin and the Scent of Money), among others.
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IDEA Boston is an Italian-inspired festival celebrating authors, books and culture, and organized by independent bookstore I AM Books, situated in Boston's North End neighborhood.
