About – english – Teatro della Yod

Knowledge is in nostalgia.
Who has never lost himself does not own anything.

Pier Paolo Pasolini

Teatro della Yod is an independent theater company founded in 2022 by Gabriele Marcelli and Daniella de Panfilis.

Just as the yod is the archetype of every written letter, our theatre inaugurates the sign of a beginning rather than a destination. At the basis of our work is the history of the last century, an uninterrupted discourse whose threads can still be extended to our present. Memory and microhistory constitute the two main roads of our poetic investigation. Starting from these primary elements, we build works focused on a dialogue with the public. The diversity of uniqueness is at the center of each of our plays. This eternal flow, rethinking, and returning to tell what we have experienced suggest new horizons and sensitive topics for exchange and comparison. Without new reflection and reconciliation, there can be no growth and without growth, life, like theatre, becomes useless.

Gabriele Marcelli

Author, theater director, and visual designer who collaborates as an artistic consultant for companies, international organizations, and cultural institutions in Italy and the United States.

With “Sciabbadai” he won the 2023 Fersen Prize for contemporary Italian dramaturgy.

He attended the acting courses of Centro Teatro Ateneo and Accademia Internazionale di Teatro in Rome. He also studied with Ferruccio Soleri, Elvira Romankzuc, Torgeir Wethal, Hal Yamanouchi, Thomas Richards, and Tapa Sudana; he studied dramaturgy and theatre literature with Franca Angelini. He was the director of the FAO theater company for several years. In 2021, after a decade of living in the US, he returned to reside in Italy where, in October 2022, he and Daniella de Panfilis founded Teatro della Yod.

Daniella de Panfilis

Actress, director, author, and acting trainer with thirty years of experience, she coordinates and directs Marfateatro, a creative laboratory focusing on the search for individual expressiveness through different performative languages.

ETI PRIZE for "Best Play" at the National Competition "Eduardo 1900-2000 Cent'anni", with "LA GRANDE MAGIA" by E. De Filippo, at the Quirino Theater in Rome.

Best Direction Award at the "New Delhi International Theater Festival (BharatRang Mahotsav) with "Medea", a play created for the Teatro Instabile of Aosta.

"Ars Sulmona 2019” Award for innovation and theater research at the Maria Caniglia Theatre in Sulmona.

She graduated in 1995 from Accademia Internazionale di Teatro in Rome, where she also taught for twelve years. She studied with Jean-Paul Denizon, Tapa Sudana, Antonio Fava, Mario Grossi, Hal Yamanouchi, Lorenzo Salveti, Eric De Bont, Mirella Ronconi, Jolanta Stanelyte, and Diana Damiani.
She taught acting at the DAMS department of the 3rd University of Rome.

For almost thirty years she has been organizing plays and happenings as well as professional projects, courses, and workshops open to all. In 2015 she created Marfateatro, a Lecoqian-style theater training center, which emphasizes the physical playing of the actor as the key language of a universal poetic awareness.

In October 2022, she and Gabriele Marcelli founded Teatro della Yod.

TEATRO DELLA YOD
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