PAOLO eMILIO LANDI

Experience

THEATRE &

TEACHING

 

2012 Richmond University, Richmond, VA.
Guest Professor
Italian Litterature in Context
Documentary film making.

 

2010 Richmond University, Richmond, VA.
Guest Professor
Italian Cinema
Conversation Through Italian Cinema
Acting Commedia dell’ arte. .

2006 Richmond University, Richmond, VA.
Guest Professor
Teaching Documentary Film  Making.
Director, The Bald Soprano and Chairs  by E. Ionesco

 

2004  Winner of the Russian Theatre Oscar with Filumena Marturano by Eduardo De Filippo.

 

2002  Richmond University, Richmond, VA.

Guest Professor

Teaching Twentieth-century Italian Theatre.

Director, Venetian Twins by Carlo Goldoni, commedia dell’arte.

 

1986- present      USA, Russia, France, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania and Italy.

International theatre director

classics and contemporary plays (in Italian, English, Russian, Lithuanian). 

 

2001-2005          State  Samara Academic Theatre in Russia

Resident theatre director.

 

1995-

Teacher of commedia dell’arte and acting.

 

1987-

Translator and adapter of plays in English, French, Russian.

 

Television &

journalism

1985 – present       National State-Owned Italian TV – RAIDUE

TV producer

More than 30 years international experience. Documentaries, reportages and cultural TV programs, shot all over the world (European Union, Africa, Asia, America)  

 

2001

Professional Journalist

Inscribed in the register of Lazio (Italy)

 

Education

 

1992               University of Rome  "La Sapienza".

Doctor in English Literature. Graduated Summa Cum Laude. 

(with specialization on Communication)

 

1982             Cambridge University (UK)   First Certificate

 

1983             Université de Poiters. (France)

 

1985              UCLA University, Rome  Screenplay workshop

 

Address & contacts

fax (39) 06-4828728 • e-mail paolo.landi@tin.it

site: www.paololandi.it

 

 

8, via monte viglio, 7 – Rome  - italy  - 00144 -  Phone (39) 06-8173881 or  333 9759304

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

INTERNATIONAL THEATRE PRODUCTIONS

 

USA

2006   Bald Soprano & The Chairs by Eugene Ionesco, University of Richmond, VA. (in english)

 

2002    The Venetian Twins by Carlo Goldoni, University of Richmond, VA. (in english)

 

1999    The Servant of Two Masters, by Carlo Goldoni, adaptation Jeff Hatcher,

             Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, (in english)

 

             

 

RUSSIA

2011 The Venetian Twins by Carlo Goldoni, Na Taganke Thetre (Moscow) (still running)

2011 Naples Town of Millionaires  by Eduardo De Filippo, Ufa Drama Russian Theatre  (Bashkortostan -Russia), in Russian. (still running)

2010  Love of the Three Oranges by Carlo Gozzi, Saratov Youth Theatre (Russia), in Russian. (still running)

2009 The Miser  by Moliere, Ufa Drama Russian Theatre  (Bashkortostan -Russia), in Russian. (still running)

2009 Misery and Nobility, by Eduardo Scarpetta, State Chelyabinsk Drama Theatre, in Russian (still running)

2008  Bald Soprano & The Chairs by Eugene Ionesco, Saratov Youth Theatre (Russia), in Russian. (still running)

 

2008   Imaginary Invalid  by Moliere, State Omsk Drama Theatre, in Russian, (running till 2012)

 

2007    Noises Off  by Michael Frayn, Ufa Drama Russian Theatre  (Bashkortostan -Russia), in Russian.

 

2006     Noises Off  by Michael Frayn, Saratov Youth Theatre (Russia), in Russian. (still running)

 

2005    The Venetian Twins ( the carnival edition) by Carlo Goldoni - Ufa Drama National Theatre (Bashkhortostan, Russian Federation), in Russian. (still running)

 

2004   Dance Marathon  by H. Mc Coy,  Samara Drama National Theatre (Russia), in Russian.

 

2003    The Servant of Two Masters, by Carlo Goldoni, adaptation Jeff Hatcher, Saratov Youth Theatre (Russia), in Russian. (still running)

 

2002   The Full Monty by J. Collard, Samara Drama National Theatre (Russia), in Russian. (still running)

 

2002     Man and Gentleman by Eduardo De Filippo, State Omsk Drama Theatre, in Russian,        

 

2001    Filumena Marturano by Eduardo de Filippo, Saratov Youth Theatre (Russia), in Russian. (still running)

 

2000    The Venetian Twins by Carlo Goldoni, Samara Drama National Theatre (Russia), in Russian. (closed after 8 years’ running)

 

1998     Misery and Nobility, by Eduardo Scarpetta, State Omsk Drama Theatre, in Russian (still running)

 

1995     The Venetian Twins by Carlo Goldoni, State Omsk Drama Theatre, in Russian,  with Valerii Alexeev, Yuri Yzkov, Dimitri Lebedev and the company. (closed after 13 years’ running)

 

1992  The Bald Primadonna by Eugene Ionesco. State Omsk Drama Theatre. First performance ever  in USSR.  

 

LITHUANIA

2009 Misery and Nobility,  by Eduardo Scarpetta, Jaunimo Teatras, Vilnius, in Lithuanian. (still running)

2006     Noises Off   by Michael Frayn, Jaunimo Teatras, Vilnius, in Lithuanian. (still running)

 

2004  SMS, All about man  by Paolo E. Landi , Jaunimo Teatras, Vilnius, in Lithuanian. (still running)

 

 

LATVIA

2013   Filumena Marturano, by Eduardo De Filippo, Liepaja Teatris, in Latvian. (still running)  

2011   Man and Gentleman by Eduardo De Filippo, Riga Russian National Drama Theatre, in Russian. (still running)

 

2008   Misery and Nobility, by Eduardo Scarpetta, Riga Russian National Drama Theatre, in Russian. (still running)

 

1993   The man, the beast and Virtue, by Luigi Pirandello, Riga Russian National Drama Theatre, in Russian.

 

 

 

FRANCE

 

1995   La Cantatrice Chauve by Eugene Ionesco, Avignon Festival (France).

 

 

GERMANY

 

1992   Tragedies in two lines, by Achille Campanile.

 

 

 

 

SOME THEATRE  PRODUCTIONS IN ITALY

 

Das Kammerspiel by Daniel Call, - Rovereto Trieste, Cividale

Antigone by Sophokles, Collaboration with Irene Papas, Greek Theatre, Syracuse, Italy.

Give Caesar… by Marguerite Yourcenar.
The Two Character Play  by Tennessee Williams (world premiere).

Globe Theatre, Città di Castello. (on stage)

Medea - Coefore, Filming tragedies at the Greek theatre in Syracuse, 3 hours.

Fischia il vento  by Adriana Zardini. Trento, Auditorium S. Chiara.

La Deposition, by Helene Pedneault. Contemporary Canadian play.

Letters from Auschwitz, stories from the concentration camp, Rome

Italian Comic Poetry, with Paola Gassman and Ugo Pagliai.

Some like it hot, Musical  by B. Wilder, Todi and Rome.

Domeniche by Roberto Tiraboschi, Rome, Italian Drama Price

After Magritte by Tom Stoppard. 

Abel e Belà by Robert Pinget.

Tutto a posto by Patrizio Rispo and Paolo Emilio Landi.

L'uomo nudo e l'uomo in frak by Dario Fo.

Sul confine  by Leonardo Franchini con Valeria Ciangottini e Pietro Biondi.

Autunno by Leonardo Franchini.

 

 

 

 

TRANSLATIONS, ADAPTATIONS, PUBLISHING

 

 

From Italian to english

Servant of Two Masters  by Carlo Goldoni (with Jeff Hatcher)

Venetian Twins by Carlo Goldoni  (with Dorothy Holland).

 

From Italian to Russian 

Filumena Marturano by  Eduardo De Filippo

Venetian Twins by Carlo Goldoni 

Misery and Nobility by Eduardo Scarpetta

 

From English to  Russian

They shoot horses, don’t they? Adaptation from Horace Mc Coy’s Novel, with Dmitri Lebedev

 

From English to  Italian

After Magritte  by Tom Stoppard

Dogg’s Hamlet by Tom Stoppard

 

From French to Italian

Abel and Bela by Robert Pinget. 

Picasso Museum Guide Book, Paris

 

From French to Russian

Le Malade Imaginaire by Moliere

 

Written Journalism:

In the name of God, the holy war in the maluku, Indonesia, Sinnos Ed. Rome

Published reportages on many magazines.

Two years of collaboration with NEV news agency, Italian News papers and Magazines

 

 

 

TEACHING

 

 

Each Goldoni’s staging included a workshop on Commedia dell’arte.

 

University of Richmond, Richmond, VA. (2010, spring semester)
            Italian Cinema
Conversation Through Italian Cinema
Acting Commedia dell’arte.

University of Richmond, Richmond, VA. (2006, fall semester)

            Documentary Film  Making

 

University of Richmond, Richmond, VA. (2002, spring semester)

            XX century Italian Theatre, Pirandello – De Filippo – Dario Fo

           

 

Milwaukee Repertory Theatre

Commedia dell’arte Workshop.  1998.

 

University of Florence

Theatre appreciation . 3 months. 2004

 

Rovereto International Directing Workshop

            Stanislavskij directing heritage (with Vijecheslav Gvodskov)  2001

 

International Masterclass in Città di Castello

            Commedia dell’arte Workshop.  1999

 

Copernico High School

            Film and novel  - 2001

 

International Masterclass in Rome

            Stanislavskij method (with Sergej Lissov) 1995 – 1997 – 1998

 

International Masterclass in Città di castello

            Acting and performing   1993-1996

 

International Masterclass in Rome

            Stanislavskij method (with Gennady Dolganov and Alexander Raphalson) 1993 – 1994    

 

High Scools in Rome, Florence, Trento, Rovereto

Theatre History  (1987 –1997)

 

RADIO

 

-RAI RADIODUE

Luther, Radio-play in 12 parts on life of Martin Luther, written and directed (Pescara).

500 years afterwards, Radio-play in 12 parts on history of the Reformation in Italy and Europe. Written and directed  (Trieste).

Evangelicals, Radio-play in 6 parts, on Reformation in Naples (Napoli)

 

 

TELEVISION

 

 

Since 1985, producer, journalist and anchor for the two-weekly TV program  Protestantesimo, broadcast by the State Owned National Italian Television,  RAIDUE. 

More than 250 hours of documentaries, reportages, short features and interviews, shot almost all over the world.  Issues range from War Reportages (Sudan, Indonesia, Rwanda, Albania and Yugoslavia) to biographies (Bach, Martin Luther, Giordano Bruno, Sweitzer), sociological enquiries (Russian new identity, homosexuality and faith, immigration in Canada) to historical documentaries (The Berlin Wall, Puritanism in America, Reformation in Germany). Recent interviewees include Literature Nobel Prize Jose’ Saramago, Peace Nobel Prize Adolfo Perez Esquivel, International renown playwrigt,  Slavomir Mrozek.

National Swiss Television, France 2 (French National TV) have also broadcast some of the productions.

Responsibilities include production of news feature, documentaries and interviews, research of subjects, script and texts writing, direction of television films, management of production, budgets and filming operations, co-productions with foreign broadcasting companies, dubbing, post production, editing  (online and offline) and duties related with team work.

 

Director of SUL CONFINE, One hour fiction by Leonardo Franchini, for RAITRE, Bolzano.

 

Producer of Advertisement shorts for TV.

Editor of Promos for Multimediatique Satellite TV.

 

 

 

SOME RECENT 30 MIN DOCUMENTARIES

 

 


·         Italy, Ferrara. Someone was saved. Jews in Ferrara.
·         Italy, Castiglione delle Stiviere, Hanry Dunant, the founder of the Red Cross.
·         Italy, Rome. Galileo, the discovery and the trial.
·         The Constitution, Rome. Meeting with former President of the Republic Oscar Luigi Scalfaro
·         Italy, Rome. Meeting in Studio. Stories and Inteviews with 11 personalities of Science, Faith and Culture.
·         Italy, Rome. Haendel, music for the soul.
·         Angola, Luanda, A school for street children.
·         Angola, Huambo, agricultural projects
·         Italy, Rome. Mendelsshon, a protestant composer?
·         Argentina, Buenos Aires, El Museo por la Memoria.

·         Uruguay, The Italian migration.

·         Lithuania, Vilnius, the History of the Lutheran Church

·         Germany, The kirchentag

·         Istanbul and the European union.

·        Italy, Freedom Fires, Olympic Winter Games.

·        Italy,  Bible & Freedom  8 centuries of Waldensian History (45 min) also DVD

·        Italy, There is a time for, What is time and how do we use it.

·        South Sudan – the peace agreement, after 21 years of war.

·        Kenya, living with AIDS.

·        Kenya, a coffee with the exorcist.

·        Germany (Berlin – Leipsig) 15 years after the Berlin Wall.

·        Estonia The Birth of a Nation, the Baltic country facing its past and joining the EU.

·        Finland  People’s Church, history of the Lutheran Church in Helsinki

·        Ethiopia  Just few hours from here. The 2003 famine.

·        Italy  Forgotten Wars, information and war in our media

·        USA The Puritan heritage in the American culture.

·        Indonesia In the Name of God, reportage on religious war between Christians and Muslims in Maluku Islands

·        Russia (Moscow and Siberia) The Putin’s Era – The Golden Domes in S. Petersburg.

·        Italy One minute to tell all about Love, 35 videoclips.

·        Canada, the multicolor immigration.

·        Iugoslavia (Belgrado – Novi Sad) Peace after the bombs.

·        Romania  (Bucarest) The rumenian revolution 1989/1999

·        Albania (Kukes, Tirana) Kukes and Back (traveling on the border during war time)

·        Sudafrica (Johannesburg) Reconciliation after Apartheid

·        Zimbabwe (Harare) Jubilee 2000

·        Rwanda The volcano might explode, the Rwandan genocide