Cecilia Carponi


History of theater and entertainment - History of Cinema - Elements of pedagogy


Cecilia Carponi

She earned a Ph.D. in Music and Performing Arts in 2018 at the Department of Art History and Performing Arts at the University of Rome - La Sapienza, in joint supervision with the IRET (Institut de Recherche en Études Théâtrales) at the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3. In 2020, she held a research fellowship at the University of Rome - La Sapienza, collaborating on the project Documentary History of Italian Theatre. As a scholar and researcher, she primarily focuses on twentieth-century European theatre, with particular attention to the history of acting, pedagogical systems of acting practice transmission, theatrical anthropology, and various phenomena of social theatre. She has participated in several national and international conferences, is the author of articles and scientific essays; together with Andrea Porcheddu, she edited the volume "The Illness that Cures Theatre," Dino Audino 2020. In collaboration with IAC-Centro Arti Integrate, she curated the publication "Matera Open City," CuePress 2021. She collaborates as an assistant and subject expert with the chairs of History of Theatre and Spectacle and History of Directing at the University of Rome - La Sapienza; in the same university, for the academic year 2021- 2022, she is in charge of the course Theories and Cultures of Representation. She is the chief editor of the university theatre criticism journal «Le nottole di Minerva», from the SARAS Department at La Sapienza, and collaborates with the "For a Necessary Theatre" project, directed by Prof. Guido Di Palma and realized with funds from the Lazio Region. At the International Academy of Theatre, she has been teaching since 2020 Theatre Psychology and Pedagogy, History of Theatre Theories, History of Performance and Directing, and History of Cinema. Since 2019, she collaborates with Illoco Theatre company, taking care of the organizational aspects related to productions, training activities, and initiatives for promoting theatre culture.