Antonio Attisani

Antonio Attisani (1948) trained as an actor at the Piccolo Teatro in Milan, and performed professionally for seven years. He later worked as a theater critic, directing the magazine Scena and the Santarcangelo International Festival until 1992, when he began teaching at the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice and, until 2018, at the University of Turin. He is the author of over thirty volumes on twentieth-century and contemporary theatre, employing a comparativist perspective.