Giuseppe L. Bonifati
Born 1985. He is an actor, playwright, poet and theatre director. He is based in Denmark. He attended the acting courses at the Civic School of Dramatic Art “Paolo Grassi”. He furthered his studies at the National Academy of Dramatic Arts “Silvio D’Amico” and at the International Theatre Workshops of Venice Biennale. Between 2010-2020 he has been artist/director in residence at Odin Teatret Nordisk Teaterlaboratorium (Denmark), theatre with which he has collaborated since 2008. He has participated in other residency programs in Europe and America.
He met during his artistic formation among others Rodrigo Garcia (as director assistant), Antonin Milenin, Abani Biswas, Maurizio Scaparro, Enzo Moscato, Marcello Magni, Vincenzo Pirrotta, Giuliano Scabia. He also followed studies on the method “Stanislavkj-Strasberg” with Beatrice Bracco, Michael Margotta, Francesca De Sapio from Actors Studio. As actor, he took part in plays directed by Eugenio Barba, Julia Varley, Motus, Renato Carpentieri, Remondi&Caporossi, Ruggero Cappuccio, Andrée Ruth Shammah, Roberto Cavosi, Emanuela Giordano, Giuseppe Maradei. He was awarded with the Crystal Microphone “Umberto Benedetto, 2006, RAI, New voices for radio (Jury: Giovanni Antonucci, Claudia Cannella, Gabriele Parenti, Nicola Cariglia). In 2011, he won the National Dramaturgy Award “Alessandro Fersen” and he has been chosen among the Young National Talents by Ministry of Youth – Italy. He has been granted in 2015 and 2020 with DE.MO./MOVIN’UP – Performing arts, by MIBACT Italian Culture Ministry/GAI. He has given workshops and lectures on performing arts collaborating with arts and drama faculties of the University of Turin, Kaposvar University (Hungary), UDESC – Florianopolis (Brazil), Aarhus University – Dramaturgy and Aesthetics, CISPA – Copenhagen International School of Performing Arts and Copenhagen University (Denmark), Teatro di Napoli Drama School (Italy).
Since 2010 is the artistic director of the performing arts group DOO – Divano Occidentale Orientale. In 2021 he has founded Det Flyvende Teater (The Flying Theatre), based at Billund Airport. He has conceived and directed more than 30 works traveling to more than 20 countries in the world.
For the poetry, he published Ritratto all’Ombra (2004) and 21:31 (mi sento morire), 2014 by Lietocolle Publisher. The text of “Pepe El Bastardo Impaziente e Innamorato” appeared in the theatrical series Percorsi by Editoria&Spettacolo publishing house.
Among other movies, he took part in Ridley Scott’s movie ALL THE MONEY IN THE WORLD, alongside international stars as Kevin Spacey, Mark Wahlberg, Christopher Plummer, Michelle Williams, Timothy Hutton. He has filmed in the BBC Tv-series US, alongside Tom Hollander and Sofie Gråbøl. He will take part in the new movie FERRARI directed by Michael Mann, with Adam Driver and Penelope Cruz. (IMDB)
Linda Sugataghy
She has a master degree of French linguistics and literature from Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE) in Budapest. Born in Hungary, she is now based in Denmark. She has been artist/director in residence at Odin Teatret Nordisk Teaterlaboratorium (Denmark). She joined DOO in 2013 and participated from the beginning in the project THE JUDGEMENT. From 2015, she is assisting the project “Above the Skin”, an urban action and workshop project touring in several countries, among others in France, Italy, Spain Hungary, Brazil. She has collaborated with arts and drama faculties of the University of Turin, Kaposvar University (Hungary), UDESC – Florianopolis (Brazil), Aarhus University and Copenhagen University (Denmark). She was the responsible of documentation and design for Art On Call in 2019, and she created for this project the doc-film “Kunst på Opkald”. She is in charge of the photo/video production, international communication and design for DOO.
Alberto M. Guinaldo
He was born and raised in Spain. Leaving there at 24, he trained as an actor at « CRL » in Liège (Belgium). A quick move to Brussels followed with a starring role as Treplev in theater production« The seagull » by Eimuntas Nekrosius in 2000. Since then he has been busy working with renowned Belgian directors such as Mathias Simons, Nathalie Mauger and Jean-François Noville. In 2006 he performed in « Le pont de pierres». This show was awarded as BEST NEWCOMER PLAY, and he got a BEST ACTOR AWARD in the Huy Theater Festival. His interest in theatrical research brought him to work in many different countries: France, England, Singapore, Italy, Canada, Denmark or Spain. Alberto’s main focus as a performer is exploring all possibilities of the actor’s physicality and body energy. He has performed in two plays by Eugenio Barba: « The marriage of Medea » (2008), and « Ur-Hamlet » (2009) and in ”Tomorrow” by Julia Varley. Later he joined renowned Russian director Vladimir Ananiev in France for his adaptation of« The shadow » (Evgueni Schwartz) in 2011. For DOO, he has performed in the following projects: “Maiden in Costa Rica”, “The Judgement”, “Qui-es-tu? Tu me tues”, “Mayor in Residence” “Kommandopost”, “Art as Defence” directed by Giuseppe L. Bonifati. He is currently touring in Africa and Europe with the play “Sank” directed by renowned African playwright and producer Aristide Tarnagda.