Bio and CV
2025
Child number 1 reached adulthood (life achievement)
Performing Stragismo and Counter-spectacularisation: Italian Terrorism and Its Legacies, London: Routledge (monograph under publication, academic dissemination)
Iara: a Contemporary Fairytale Romance (stop motion animation)
The Influencers and the Baba-Jaga of Gentrification, Berlin Kiez Film Festival, best music video (stop motion animation)
Mohawk - Berlin Kiez Film Festival, official selection (music video)
“’It’s just the beginning’. Ethics and aesthetics of performing memories as an act of activism”, Performativity(ies) of Memory(ies) Conference, Viana do Castelo, Portugal (paper, academic dissemination)
White man and La Madonna, Civic Action Lab, London (collages, exhibition)
The scientific method (video performance)
Another Useless Doctor, SGSAH Summer School (interactive performance, knowledge exchange)
“Will Cinderella fight inequality?”. International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media, 1-19. (article, academic dissemination)
2024
I wrapped up my PhD (life achievement)
“Performing the 1970s, Memories of the Years of the Lead”, TaPRA, University of Newcastle (paper and film, academic dissemination)
“Performing the Collective Memory of Stragismo”, Society of Italian Studies, PG Colloqium, Cork, Ireland (paper, academic dissemination)
2023
Fuori Programma [Unscheduled], Pleasance Theatre, Edinburgh (theatre performance)
"I admired the modern theatrical technique, the stage devices, the way voices are embodied through various theatrical objects. You made me realise that we must make an effort to look into the faeces of capitalism, into its advertising propaganda, to understand that change is still happening, and cannot be stopped" - Audience member
Workshop in the Italian language run with University Students, leading to the live performance Fuori Programma (Pleasance Theatre, Edinburgh) (workshop, knowledge exchange)
“Composition strategies: how theatre can help”, SGSAH Summer School (workshop, knowledge exchange)
“Fuori Programma. Italian political violence and its impact on the performance of gender”, International Gender Conference, Symbiosis School for Liberal Arts (paper, academic dissemination)
Noi siamo in Linea [We are online], Participation: Norms and Storms Conference, University of Leeds (interactive installation and paper, academic dissemination)
Engagement Fund, SGSAH (award)
Je suis le yo-yo , Fringe Arts Bath (photography, exhibition)
2022
“Vintage TVs and under-represented memories. A participatory practice to portray the impact of the Italian right-wing political violence (1969-1980) on collective memory”, DAVAMOT symposium, Falun University (paper, screening, academic dissemination)
“Italian Theatre abroad and institutional support: Put your money where your culture is”, Migrant Theatre, Una Europa, University of Bologna (paper, academic dissemination)
“Liquid years: Stragismo in the media”, Society of Italian Studies Conference, University of Warwick (paper and interactive installation, academic dissemination)
Noi siamo in linea, Scottish Graduate School for the Arts and Humanities' Summer School, Glasgow (interactive installation, academic dissemination)
Fuori Programma, Luleå International Film Festival, official selection; Boden International Film Festival, official selection (experimental documentary short film, academic dissemination)
“What is agency, anyway?”, SGSAH Summer School (improvisation workshop, knowledge exchange)
“Research and Practice”, SGSAH blog (academic dissemination)
“Fuori Programma”, The Film Dispatch blog, University of Edinburgh (academic dissemination)
Engagement Fund, SGSAH (award)
Student Experience Grant, LLC University of Edinburgh (award)
2021
Delusional Nature, ESMoA Video Art and Film Festival, semi-finalist; Microfilm Festival, finalist; Spark Micro-Short Film Festival, official selection; Life Screening One Minute Film Festival, official selection (video performance)
Col sole in fronte (video performance)
Lasciami qui (video performance)
Landing (short film)
Mixed works, “Domestic practice in quarantine”, curated by S. Black, Hope University, Liverpool, UK (exhibition)
Sospensioni, Artist-Parent Pandemic Video and New Genres, curated by Myrel Chernick and Niku Kashef, College Art Association Annual Conference (NY, US) (short film, exhibition)
2020
Workshops for teenagers; online during the Covid-19 lockdown, (2020/2021) and in person (2021/2023), Cut Moose, London (workshop, social engagement)
Delusional Nature, The Long Minute, curated by Bronwyn Lace, Centre for the Less Good Idea (Johannesburg, South Africa) (video performance, exhibition)
Self-reflection in quarantine (video performance)
Sospensioni (ready-made short film)
Altrove (moving image)
2019
Nostalgia campestre [Countryside Nostalgia], EmEm Art Fest, Trakų Vokės Dvaro Sodyba, Vilnius, Lithuania (exhibition)
Scottish Graduate School for the Arts and Humanities, AHRC scholarship for a full-time PhD (award)
Se la regina muore [If the Queen dies] (ready-made short film)
The Invisible Cities Project, Estorick Gallery (London) and CCA, Glasgow, 2019 (theatre performance)
God Save the Tea, Tête-à-Tête Opera Festival and Imaginarius Festival (Portugal) (contemporary opera and roaming performance, theatre performance)
“War wounded chairs and relational cages”, UAL Postgraduate Community Blog, March 2019. (academic dissemination)
Primary school pupils’ installation/participatory performance, Remember Nature, CSM, (2019, Cut Moose, London) (installation)
2018
You, now. Who will drink the tea? (participatory installation/moving image)
Nostalgia campestre (ready-made short film)
Vacanze di famiglia (ready-made short film)
2017
La trasformazione ai tempi del capitalismo (video performance)
2016
Kobietostan - immersive installation as a response to a series of workshops with marginalised women in a female jail and in a female shelter in Wroclaw (PL) (installation)
Marcel vol. II - Vanishing Point (theatre performance)
“The subject matter remains increasingly relevant and was explored in a very innovative and creative way” – Oliver Carruthers, Rich Mix Head of Programming
“The lack of spoken dialogue unlocked all sorts of emotional potential and humour” – Audience member
“Scarily not absurd” – Audience member
“Possibly the most eclectic and sideways commemoration of the First World War at the Fringe” - The Scotsman
2015
Senza frac nero né cilindro [Without a black tailcoat or a top hat], Teatro S. Filippo Neri, Bologna, Italy (theatre season)
2013/4
Marcel vol. I - Italian Politics as a work of art, Brighton Fringe Festival; Edinburgh Fringe Festival (theatre performance)
“The show manages to comment on political corruption, saturation of information, negative representations of women as well as parodying military rigmarole in a generally absurdist fashion” - Broadwaybaby
“Possibly the most eclectic and sideways commemoration of the First World War at the Fringe” - The Scotsman
“Un classico contemporaneo. Eimuntas Nekrošius”, Quaderni del Premio Letterario Giuseppe Acerbi, Letteratura Lituana, December 2013 (article, academic dissemination)
Senza frac nero né cilindro [Without a black tailcoat or a top hat], Teatro S. Filippo Neri, Bologna, Italy (theatre season)
2012
Marcel, Teatro lo Spazio competition, Rome, finalist (installation)
We became immigrants (life achievement)
Senza frac nero né cilindro [Without a black tailcoat or a top hat], Teatro S. Filippo Neri, Bologna, Italy (theatre season)
2011
La Regina delle nevi [The Snowqueen] (theatre performance)
Senza frac nero né cilindro [Without a black tailcoat or a top hat], Teatro S. Filippo Neri, Bologna, Italy (theatre season)
2010
I doubled up on parenting (life achievement)
Quella Luce Blu. Vita di Marie Curie [That Blue Light. Life of Marie Curie] (recasted and remade, theatre performance)
2009
Il Sogno di Rosa [Rosa’s Dream] (theatre performance)
“The historical facts are told, the advertisies are not hidden, but the show has the same light filter of a fairytale. All the images are alive” - Teatro e Critica
2008
Ho perso il mio Orsacchiotto Bianco [I lost my white teddy], Premio Scenario, selected (theatre performance)
I musicanti di Brema [The Town Musician of Bremen] (theatre performance)
2007
I became a parent (life achievement)
Somnio ergo Sum (open air theatre festival)
Raccontano le storie [So the stories tell] (theatre performance)
Dalla terra al cielo [From the earth to the sky] (theatre performance)
Mela (theatre performance)
Quella Luce Blu. Vita di Marie Curie [That Blue Light. Life of Marie Curie] (recasted, theatre performance)
“Eimuntas Nekrošius in Italia”, in P.U.Dini (ed) (2007). L’anello lituano, Livorno and Vilnius: Books and Company, pp. 203 - 206, ISBN 978-888-7997-1-2-7 (article, academic dissemination)
“Eimuntas Nekrošius: una tradizione universale”. La Porta D’Oriente, rivista di studi sugli Orienti, February 2007, pp. 140-142 (article, academic dissemination)
2006
E venne il tempo [And the time came] (theatre performance)
2005
Quella Luce Blu. Vita di Marie Curie [That Blue Light. Life of Marie Curie] (theatre performance)
“In this performance, the ‘poor means of theatre’ are used with great skill. Everything contributes to presenting an unforgettable show” - Maria Rosa Menzio, Artistic Director of Teatroscienza
“Ros’s work combines precision and lightness, offering both reflection and enjoyment to the audience” - Francesca Vidotto, theoretical physicist
“A perfect show” - Gianfranco Rimondi, theatre director
2004
Mine Haha (theatre performance)
2003
Il pianto della luna [The Moon’s Cry] (theatre performance)
2002
Hansimel e Brettel (theatre performance)
Workshops for children and for elderly people in schools and community centres, based on principles of physical theatre and improvisation (2002-2012) (workshop, social engagement)
“I have learnt I can stand with my back straight” - Anna, year 4, Primary School