LUCA BARBARESCHI

Biography

Luca Barbareschi was born on July 28, 1956 in Montevideo, Uruguay.He began his career at the age of 20, serving as the assistant director for the production “Henry V” directed by Virginio Puecher, at Verona Theatre.He soon settled in Chicago and worked as assistant director in the staging of “Hoffmann’stales” – a five-act Opéra-fantastique by Jacques Offenbach – also directed by Virginio Puecher.Before moving to New York, Barbareschi worked on three further productions at Chicago LyricOpera Theatre, as first assistant.In New York, he spent a year at Metropolitan Opera Theatre under the direction of FrankCorsaro, and four years studying with the best acting coaches of that time: Lee Strasberg,Nicholas Ray (director of “Rebel without a cause”) and Stella Adler.In 1983 Barbareschi produced, wrote and starred in the film “Summertime” (director M.Mazzucco), prize winner in Venice, Sydney, London, Annecy, Nice. Later, he decided to return toItaly with his newly acquired innovative experiences and ideas and chose Rome as his adoptivetown.That same year he also played the leading role in Nino Marino’s film “Son of a bitch”.From that moment on, his thirty years of activity have been intensely frenetic ranging fromtheatre, film and television, sometimes as supporting or leading actor, at others, in thecapacity of producer, director, anchorman, or scriptwriter. His eclectic personality led him tocreate both a computer company, Glamm Interactive and the Rome-based production companyCasanova Entertainment, which produces for theatre, film and television. It was his companythat acquired the rights of numerous authors’ works (for example those of American writerssuch as Mamet and Shepard).In the 90’s for Four Point Entertainment, a Los Angeles-based production company, he hosted100 episodes of “That’s amore”, a very successful TV show.

Barbareschi’s career in

theatre

includes more than 30 plays and shows- for the most part asactor (often in leading roles) and director, with his production company producing the sevenmost recent productions of these.From the very beginning Barbareschi’s main aim was to focus on unconventional playwrightsand make them known to the Italian audience. To do this, he acquired the rights of a greatdeal of plays which he personally staged as leading actor and director. Among them: the one-man show “Planting nails with my forehead in the floor” by Eric Bogosian, “Skylight” by David

Hare, “Pop corn” by Ben Elton, Mamet’s “Oleanna” and “Boston Marriage” - the latter producedby Casanova Entertainment in 2001, featured Veronica Pivetti and Valentina Sperlì .In 2000-2001 his performance as Salieri in Shaffer’s “Amadeus” a colossal production directedby Roman Polanski, was met with critical and audience acclaim.He later acted in “Harry and me” by Nigel Williams, brought to the stage in 2000 and broadcastthe following year by Raidue as part of “Palcoscenico”.Recently, he made his first appearance as a musical star playing the role of Billy Flynn in theItalian tour of the prestigious musical Chicago.Barbareschi has taken part in more than eighty television series and twenty variety shows.In 2001 he presented the game show “Greed” (130 episodes of 30’ on Rai Due). In 2002, heproduced and starred in the two-episode miniseries for Raiuno “Giorni da Leone – Living like aLion”, directed by F. Barilli.In 2003, he played the leading role in two television series “Una vita in regalo” (directorTiziana Aristarco, with Irene Ferri and Remo Girone), and “Rivoglio i miei figli”, (director LuigiPerelli, leading actress Sabrina Ferilli).In 2004 he produced and played the lead role in four episodes of the TV-series “Nebbie edelitti” directed by Riccardo Donna for Rai.He also shot “Les Rois Maudits”, a five-episode TV-series for France 2 Télévision, directed byJosée Dayan, with Gérard Depardieu and Jeanne Moreau.In 2005 he produced and played as main character in four episodes of the TV-series “Livinglike a Lion 2” directed by Francesco Barilli, and in 2007 he also acted in the sequel in 6episodes “Nebbie e delitti 2” directed by Riccardo Donna.For

cinema

, Barbareschi has starred in 30 films, produced 5 and directed 2. His very first filmas a director was “Ardena – The never-never land”,

shot in 1996, featured Lucrezia Lante DellaRovere as female lead. In 2002 he directed and starred in “Il trasformista – The Chameleon”,coproduced by RaiCinema.In 2001 he was appointed artistic director of Eliseo Theatre (Rome) where he directed AnnaGaliena and Fabio Sartor in Blasband’s play “Une liaison pornographique”.He was the author and artistic director of the first two seasons of Bologna Futurshow andOltremanica (2000-2001-2002), a festival for international scriptwriters and was also amember of the board of Piccolo Theatre in Milan and IMAIE.He is currently a Juror at David di Donatello Festival and European Film Academy; member of Territorial Council of ETI Ente Teatrale Italiano (2003-4-5); Vice President of APT (TV ProducersAssociation) 2003-2005; Artistic Director of Latina Theatre and member of the CinemaRevision Commission within the Italian Government’s Department of Art and Culture. In 2006he was placed in charge of artistic contents of the television channel of H3G media company.

LUCA BARBARESCHI – (Credits)INSTITUTIONAL CREDITS

2006 Responsible for artistic contents for H3G’s TV channel.2003-2005 Vice President of APT (TV producers association)2003-2005 Artistic Director of Teatro di LatinaMember of Territorial Council of Ente Teatrale Italiano (2003-4-5)2001-2002 Artistic Director of Teatro Eliseo2000-2001-2002 Artistic Director of Oltremanica – International Playwriters FestivalMember of Board of Directors of Piccolo Teatro D’EuropaMember of Board of Directors of I.M.A.I.E.Member of Censorship CommissionJuror at David di Donatello FestivalJuror at European Film Academy