
Marco Calvani
Writer / Director
Melissa Leo and Leïla Behkti in
The View From Up Here
written and directed for the screen by Marco Calvani
TESTIMONIALS
“
I admire Marco’s ability to craft smart, visceral characters: he is a tireless technician but always works with a sense of supreme confidence due to an innate trust of his instinctual talent.
NEIL LABUTE
PLAYWRIGHT
With his work, Marco reaches across culture and society into humanity, and changes the way we look at ourselves.
“
ANDRÉA FERRÉOL
ACTOR
“
Marco creates theater that shows us ourselves the only way an artist can: with a fierce dedication to the truth and with courageous originality.
ESTELLE PARSONS
ACTOR/DIRECTOR
Un dramaturgo dotado de talento, rigor y espíritu de riesgo, capaz de generar e impulsar proyectos teatrales propios de amplia resonancia social.
“
JOSÉ SANCHIS SINISTERRA
PLAYWRIGHT
“
Marco’s work has provided a unique contribution to the modern interpretation of what theatre means today.
BRUCE WEBER
PHOTOGRAPHER/FILMMAKER
A courageous and
powerful playwright.
He explores with vivid starkness some of the most violent
and painful conflicts
of our contemporary society.
“
FRANCESCA DE SAPIO
ACTOR/WRITER/COACH
PRESS
La Vanguardia (2010)
The Jakarta Post (2009)
El pais (2007)
The New York times (2012)
Time Out New York (2012)
Il Secolo XIX (2006)
L'Uomo Vogue Italy (2015)
El Punt (2007)
D di Repubblica (2006)
Garuda magazine Indonesia (2009)
El pais (2012)
Corriere della Sera (2010)
Time Out Barcelona (2007)
New York Post (2012)
La Repubblica (2012)
Il Tirreno (2013)
La Nazione (2015)
La Marseillaise (2010)
La Repubblica (2006)
Panorama (2006)
Il Corriere (2012)
La Repubblica (2012)
La Voce di New York (2016)
Il Corriere (2005)
La Repubblica (2013)
Il Tempo (2003)
The New York times (2017)
BIO

photo by Michael McFadden
Marco is an Italian born award-winning playwright and director, proud member of the Dramatists Guild of America and the Playwrights/Directors Unit at The Actors Studio.
Trained as an actor, since he was a teenager, Marco made his debut as a playwright in 2002 with Quasi, commissioned by the European Social Forum. Strong Hands was his first play to be performed to great acclaim throughout Europe. Commissions from Todi Art Festival, Phoenix Theatre of London, Teatro di Roma, Théâtre de la Ville of Paris, La MaMa Theatre of New York and Grec Fundaciò of Barcelone followed.
In 2012 Marco created with his fellow Neil LaBute the international project AdA – Author directing Author (Spoleto Festival, Fringe Festival Madrid, La MaMa Theatre, Biennale Venice, Grec Festival Barcelone).
In 2013 the Teatro Metastasio Stabile della Toscana organized a retrospective of his work for which he wrote and directed I am Dracula.
Marco has collaborated in the position of Literary Advisor to the National Theatre of Scotland and is the founder and artistic director of Mixò (www.mixonline.eu) an international cultural center based in Rome, Italy, that brings together young actors and writers and promotes original works for stage.
He is the winner of the 2011 S.I.A.E. Prize for Best Playwright, of the 2013 Outstanding Playwright for his play Oil (Planet Connections Theatre Festivity Awards) and of the 2015 Calcante Prize for The Second Time. He’s also the recipient of the 2011 Cité Internationale des Arts Grant (Paris) and of the 2015 Writer Fellowship at the Edward F. Albee Foundation. He’s a permanent artist-in-residence at La MaMa Theatre. He teaches writing and acting in USA and in Europe. He translates from English and French into Italian and he’s an official translator of Theresa Rebeck, Bernard-Marie Koltès and Bryony Lavery. His work is translated and produced in nine different languages across the world.
His short film The View from Up Here (US/France 2017) - based on his eponymous play commissioned by The Actors Studio and directed by Estelle Parsons - stars Academy Award winner Melissa Leo and César winner Leïla Bekhti. He is currently working in Paris on his first feature film.
Marco lives in Brooklyn, NY.
NEWS

BEAUTIFUL DAY WITHOUT DAY world premiere Off-Broadway
October 09, 2018
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NAILS opens in Rio de Janeiro
May 02, 2018
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Master Class on Ibsen's A DOLL'S HOUSE at Teatre Akademia of Barcelone
November 07, 2017
Marco Calvani will give a master class for professionals on "A Doll's House" by Henrik Ibsen in the atelier of Teatre Akademia in Poble Nou, Barcelona.
The workshop will focus on the analysis of some key scenes of the play in order to investigate the condition of the woman nowadays trying to clarify and represent the relationship-conflict woman-man.
20 -24 November 2017

THE VIEW FROM UP HERE at Savannah Film Festival 2017
October 30, 2017
THE VIEW FROM UP HERE will have its world premiere at the 20th Savannah Film Festival (Official competition).
First screening: November 1, 4PM
Second screening: November 3, 9AM

THE VIEW FROM UP HERE is back in NYC!
August 02, 2017
August 10, 2017 at 6:30pm
as part of the 42nd Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Short Plays Festival
Featuring: Susan Murphy and Kamala Israfilova
Directed by Marco Calvani
Stage Manager/Assistant Director: Allison Eikerenkoetter
Tickets and info: oobfestival.com

Race, sex, stories, bodies, visions: the value of diversity in acting.
June 14, 2017
Marco is back at Sala Beckett to give an acting workshop Within the GREC 2017 Festival of Barcelona.
From 06/07/2017 to 10/07/2017
Contact: obrador@salabeckett.cat

THE VIEW FROM UP HERE at the 42nd Annual Samuel French Off Off Broadway Short Play Festival
May 28, 2017
Marco will be among the Top 30 playwrights competing in the 42nd Annual Samuel French Off Off Broadway Short Play Festival, running in August 2017 in NYC.
Dates TBC.

THE VIEW FROM UP HERE becomes a film!
February 21, 2017
Marco wrote and directed the short film THE VIEW FROM UP HERE starring Academy Award winner Melissa Leo and Cesar winner Leïla Bekhti.
Falling Up Films (us) and Move Movie (france) producing.
Executive Producers: Bruce Weber and Kevin Berman.

AdA in New York
January 03, 2017
Neil LaBute and Marco Calvani reunite once again for the unique, international collaboration that is ADA: Author directing Author. This year’s theme is POWER and the Spanish playwright/director Marta Buchaca joins the two co-founders for the third edition of the project. Each author directs the other playwright’s work. These three US premieres create one provocative and passionate evening of theatre.
AdA at Grec Festival of Barcelone
May 12, 2016
ADA POWER in previews at Sala Beckett of Barcelona as part of the Grec Festival 2017. Marta Buchaca will direct world premiere of Marco's new play AFTER THE DARK.

THE ROSE TATTOO at Williamstown Theatre Festival
June 16, 2016
Marco is artistic advisor and consultant to director Trip Cullman for the revival of THE ROSE TATTOO by Tennessee Williams starring Marisa Tomei and Chris Abbott.

World premiere of MASPETH at Planet Connections Festival NYC
June 06, 2016
Thursday, June 30 8pm
Planet Connections Theatre Festivity helps close out Gay Pride Month with a reading of Marco Calvani's drama MASPETH. The reading is directed by Shira-Lee Shalit, with a cast that includes Christina Toth, Evgeniya Radilova and Alexander Hodge. Joe Dolce, former editor in chief of Details and Star magazines and journalist for many of the world's leading publications, including The New York Times, is hosting a Talk Back session after the production.
@ the Paradise Factory, 64 East 4th Street, NYC.

American premiere of STRONG HANDS
April 21, 2016
Monday 16 May 2016 7:00 PM
Staged reading of STRONG HANDS directed by Erwin Maas.
Translation by Bing Taylor.
Presented by Origin Theatre Company in partnership with Glucksman Ireland House NYU.
Followed by a Q&A with the playwright after the reading.
Free admission. RSVP to events@origintheatre.org
@ Glucksman Ireland House at NYU
GALLERY
MEDIA
Penelope in Groznyj
interview Napoli Teatro festival 2010
Fringe Festival madrid 2012
LaBute & Calvani press conference
Biennale Venice 2014
interview LaBute/Fillion/Calvani
NAILS
teaser of the Italian production
Marco Calvani, guest of the tv show 'Chi e' di scena' (Italy, 2013)
Strong Hands
trailer of the Catalan production (2007)
Marco Calvani guest of the conference on contemporary dramaturgy 'La Mia Poetica', Teatro india, Rome 2011
La MaMa Theatre NYC
AdA project -3rd edition

Penelope in Groznyj
Original Score composed by Diego Buongiorno
La MaMa Theatre NYC
AdA project - 2nd edition
Fringe Festival Madrid 2012
interview Calvani
Penelope in Groznyj
trailer of the German production
OIL
trailer of the Italian production
I am Dracula
Teaser of the Italian Production (2013)
Strong Hands
trailer of the Italian Production (2006)
My Heart is a Forest
RomaEuropa Festival 2013
interview Calvani
AdA Power 2017 promo
La MaMa Theatre NYC

I am Dracula
Original Score composed by Diego Buongiorno
feat. Dorian Wood
Spoleto Festival 2012
AdA project - 1st edition
Fringe Festival Madrid 2012
interview Nestor Saied (NAILS)
Penelope in Groznyj
TG News Lombardia, Rai3 (Italy, 2011)
OIL
teaser of the Italian production
Stockholm by Bryony Lavery
translated and directed by Calvani
Trailer (2013)
Penelope in Groznyj (full show)
Teatro Vascello Rome (2012)
Grec Festival Barcelona 2016
AdA Project - 3rd Edition
Marco Calvani & monica Scattini
guests of the tv show 'Cominciamo bene'
Rai3 Italy
