Annalisa Canfora


Technical reading exercises - Recitation in verse - Use of voice and diction


Annalisa Canfora

She graduated in Letters, from the Department of Italian Studies and Performing Arts at La Sapienza University, Rome with a thesis in Methodology and Criticism of Performance titled “The Factory of Memory, theater and dramaturgy in Ascanio Celestini”. She obtained an Acting Diploma from the National Academy of Dramatic Arts Silvio D’Amico. As a prose actress alongside great masters and protagonists of the Italian scene (Giorgio Albertazzi, Moni Ovadia, Mariano Rigillo, Iaia Forte, Marisa Fabbri, Mauro Avogadro, and many others), she has ranged from classical to contemporary theater: Oscar Wilde, Anton Chekhov, Arthur Miller, Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev, W. Shakespeare, Aristophanes, Sophocles, Italo Calvino, H. Ibsen, L. Pirandello, Dante Alighieri, M. Cervantes. In 2008, she was the author and performer of the show “Aldo Moro, 21 frames of a story”, a narrative-performance that retraces one of the most tragic events of our Republic. In 2005, she published “Our Contemporary Slang – twenty years of theatrical passion”, for the publisher La Mongolfiera, and wrote the critical essay “The Absent Gesture”, in “The Invention of Memory – The Theater of Ascanio Celestini”, edited by Andrea Porcheddu, for the publisher Principe Costante. As an artistic consultant and organizer of many cultural festivals, since 2017 she has been the Artistic Director of the Caffeina Theater in Viterbo, the Salvini Theater of Pitigliano, and the Francigena Theater of Capranica. She works as a teacher at the “Stap” Academy of the Brancaccio Theater. Since 2020, she has been a faculty teacher in the “Academic Diploma Course of 1st Level in Acting” at the International Academy of Theatre.