Dematté Angela

Playwright and actress

Born in Trento in 1980, she graduated in Modern Literature at the State University of Milan and graduated from the Accademia dei Filodrammatici in 2005. In 2009, she began her activity as a playwright and won the 50th Riccione Prize with her first text ‘I had a nice red ball’ and the Golden Graal Astro Nascente Prize for theatre.

The text was staged by Carmelo Rifici, with whom she began a fertile relationship of collaboration that gave birth to several plays: ‘L’officina- storia di una famiglia’, produced like the previous one by the Teatro Stabile di Bolzano, the project ‘Chi resta’ (written with Renato Gabrielli and Roberto Cavosi), ‘Clitennestra o la morte della tragedia’ for Elisabetta Pozzi produced by Teatro Due in Parma, ‘Il compromesso’, written for the students of the Accademia dei Filodrammatici.

With the same director he wrote ‘Iphigenia, liberata’ produced by the LAC in Lugano and the Piccolo Teatro in Milan. Among the other texts staged: ‘Stragiudamento’ and ‘Lungh “me la Fabrica del Domm” (directed by Andrea Chiodi), “Stava la madre” (winner of Teatri del Sacro, directed by Sandro Mabellini), “Guida estrema di puericultura” written with Francesca Sangalli (finalist for the Dante Cappelletti prize, directed by Renato Sarti), “Nel ventre della guerra”, for Massimo Popolizio, produced by Pergine Spettacolo Aperto.

He won the 2015 Scenario Prize with the project ‘Mad in Europe’. His work has been published in Italy (Editoria & Spettacolo) and in France (Les solitaires intempestifs). ‘J’avais un beaux ballon rouge’ has been on stage in France, Switzerland, Belgium and Luxembourg for four seasons under the direction of Michel Didym, winner of the Palmarès Coup de coeur award for the performers Richard and Romane Bohringer.

She worked as an actress with Mimmo Cuticchio, Bano Ferrari, Vittorio Possenti, Peter Clough, Bruno Fornasari, Walter Pagliaro, Mario Gas, Pietro Carriglio. In cinema with Toni Trupia, Giovanni Calamari, Matteo Ricca, Daniela Persico, Sergio Fabio Ferrari.