After being a finalist in 2011, Daria Deflorian won the prestigious Italian theatre award Premio Ubu 2012 as best actress for L’origine del mondo by Lucia Calamaro (at FIT 2015) and for Reality (at FIT 2013), the play written and performed with Antonio Tagliarini. In 2013 she was awarded the Premio Hystrio. As an actress, in her career she has worked with Stephane Braunscweig, Massimiliano Civica, Lotte Van Den Berg (Netherlands), Valentino Villa, Lucia Calamaro, Marco Baliani, Fabrizio Arcuri, Mario Martone, Martha Clarke (New York Theatre Workshop), Remondi and Caporossi, Fabrizio Crisafulli, Marcello Sambati, among others. She was assistant director for Mario Martone, Pippo Delbono and for Anna Karenina by Eimuntas Nekrosius.

Her latest personal productions were: Manovre di volo by Daniele Del Giudice (2001), Torpignattara for the Petrolio project (2004), Corpo a corpo in collaboration with Alessandra Cristiani (2007), Bianco from the poems of Azzurra D’Agostino (2008). Since then she has been working with her artistic partner Antonio Tagliarini. The first work born from their collaboration was Rewind, an homage to Pina Bausch’s Café Müller (2008). In 2009 they staged a work loosely inspired by Andy Warhol’s philosophy, from a to d and back again.

Between 2010 and 2011 Deflorian and Tagliarini worked on the project Reality, which, starting with the diaries of a Cracow housewife, gave rise to two works: the installation/performance Rzeczy/things (2011) and the play Reality in 2012, a work for which Daria Deflorian won the Premio Ubu 2012 as best lead actress. In the fall of 2012, they began work on Ce ne andiamo per non darvi altre preoccupazioni (at FIT in 2014) with the artistic collaboration of Monica Piseddu and Valentino Villa. The show won the Premio Ubu 2014 as best Italian novelty or dramaturgical research and in 2016 the Critics’ Prize as best foreign performance in Quebec, Canada. In 2014 Daria Deflorian coordinated the didactic and performative project on the theatre work of Peter Handke (La terra sonora, il teatro di Peter Handke) for La Sapienza University in Rome. Also in 2014, with Tagliarini, she created Il posto, a site-specific work for the Boschi-Di Stefano house-museum in Milan.

In 2015 Daria Deflorian was invited to Paris as a resident artist at the théâtre La Colline where, in addition to presenting her projects as part of the Festival d’Automne, she worked as an actress in the version of I giganti della montagna by Pirandello directed by Stéphane Braunschweig. In the summer of 2015, she presented with Antonio Tagliarini an open-air performance, produced by Teatro di Roma, along Via Marconi in Rome, Quando non so sapere cosa fare cosa faccio, loosely inspired by the film by Antonio Pietrangeli Io la conoscevo bene.

In 2017, Daria Deflorian participated in the Radio3 radio programme Ad alta voce with the complete reading of Il diario di Anna Frank directed by Lorenzo Pavolini. In the role of Ginevra she then worked for the Sky television series written and directed by Niccolò Ammaniti, Il miracolo and in the film by Alice Rorwacher, Lazzaro Felice. With Monica Demuru and Monica Piseddu she created Memoria di ragazza, una lettura e qualche canzone from Annie Ernaux. The same year, Il cielo non è un fondale (at FIT in 2017), by Deflorian/Tagliarini with the collaboration of Francesco Alberici and Monica Demuru, premiered at the Théâtre de Vidy in Lausanne, and was then presented in Rome for the RomaEuropa festival and in Paris in the Odeon season again for the Festival d’Automne. The show won the Premio Ubu 2017 for best set design.

In 2018 two new works were presented: Scavi, a shared performance of Deflorian/Tagliarini with Francesco Alberici, and the show Quasi Niente, presented at LAC Lugano as part of the FIT Festival.

In February 2020, their theatrical adaptation by Deflorian/Tagliarini of the text Chi ha ucciso mio padre by Edouard Louis, with a performance by Francesco Alberici, had its debut at Festival Vie in Modena. They then began working on a new project around the movie Ginger e Fred, by Federico Fellini which led in 2021 to the creation of the play Avremo ancora l’occasione di ballare insieme and the performance Sovrimpressioni, and in 2022 to the presentation of the documentary film Siamo qui per provare co-signed with Jacopo Quadri.

For the three-year period 2022-2024 Daria Deflorian, together with Antonio Tagliarini, is associate artist of Triennale Milano Teatro.

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Elogio della vita a rovescio
2023 Edition
29.09 – 08.10

Quasi niente
Deflorian/Tagliarini
2018 Edition
26.09 – 07.10

Il cielo non è un fondale
Deflorian/Tagliarini
2017 Edition
28.09 – 08.10

Ce ne andiamo per non darvi altre preoccupazioni
Deflorian/Tagliarini
2014 Edition
16.10 – 20.10

Reality
Deflorian/Tagliarini
2013 Edition
18.10 – 27.10