Elena Cotugno@Alessandra Liviadotti
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ELENA COTUGNO/TEATRO dei BORGIA

ACTRESS and AUTHOR
Elena Cotugno is an actress, playwright and co-director, with Gianpiero Borgia, of the TB company.

She graduated in 2006 from the International Theater Academy of Adriatic (I.T.A.C.A.) in Techniques and Methodologies of Dramatic Arts. Her education was immediately defined as nomadic and internationally oriented: in 2007 she followed a course of studies at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (L.A.M.D.A.) in Techniques and Methodologies of the Dramatic Arts. Since then she has continued her path of training, research and creation in the techniques of acting, direction and theater pedagogy with the masters Jurij Alschitz and Anatolij Vasil’ev and also began her first collaborations with Gianpiero Borgia.

In 2008 she was in fact back in Berlin to continue her studies on the methodology of Jurij Alschitz, then in 2009 she moved to Rome where she obtained a Master’s degree in Performing Arts with Anatoly Vasil’ev. Since 2010 she has followed Vasil’ev first to Venice, where he attended a Master in Theater Pedagogy organized by the CTR Venezia e Milano Teatro Scuola Paolo Grassi, then again in 2010 to Paris for the show dedicated to Anton Chekhov and his stories entitled Soirée Chekhov . In 2011 she is she again in France for Valodia le grand et Valodia le petit by Anton Chekhov, in Strasbourg, in the Friche Laiterie, directed by Agnés Adam. In 2013 you resumed your studies with the Russian master with a workshop organized in Sesto Fiorentino in the Teatro della Limonaia. In the same years she also studied with Valerio Binasco and Gabriele Vacis.

Also in 2007 you made your debut in Escaping Hamlet, a show by Gianpiero Borgia which was nominated for the Total Theater Award at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. In 2008 it was the turn of Inside Yerma, also by Borgia, by Federico Garcia Lorca, again on the stage of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival where it was nominated for the International Theater Fringe Award.

In 2009, for TB she starred in Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida.

In 2013 she was the author and actress of the perfomance Volevo essere Amy Winehouse, a solo show that reflects on the talent and drug addiction of the rock star from the perspective of a fan.

The artistic collaboration with Gianpiero Borgia becomes a real partnership and the two give life to TB, Teatro dei Borgia with which they produce a cycle of Goldoni’s rewrites in collaboration with Fabrizio Sinisi: Gl’Innamorati, La Locandiera e l’Arlecchino.

Since 2016 she has been the protagonist of Medea per strada, a traveling show on a van, for seven spectators at a time, created by Gianpiero Borgia. For this show you, together with Fabrizio Sinisi, also wrote the dramaturgy.

In 2017 she performed in Cabaret D’Annunzio, a dramaturgical experiment signed by Teatro dei Borgia for the National Theater of Croatia.

In 2022 she took part in Giacomo. Un intervento d’arte drammatica in ambito politico.

In 2023 she appeared in Antigone. Cerimonia con canzoni.

 

 
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