Monica Maimone is an Italian

Italy

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 theater director and playwright

Playwright

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Biography

She started her career in theater in 1966; in 1968 she created the theatre group called Nuova Scena together with Dario Fo

Dario Fo

Dario Fo is an Italian satirist, playwright, theater director, actor and composer. His dramatic work employs comedic methods of the ancient Italian commedia dell'arte, a theatrical style popular with the working classes. He currently owns and operates a theatre company with his wife, actress...

 and Franca Rame

Franca Rame

Franca Rame is an Italian theatre actress and playwright. She is also the wife of Nobel Prize winning author Dario Fo and the mother of the writer Jacopo Fo.- Life :...

, following the model of Erwin Piscator

Erwin Piscator

Erwin Friedrich Maximilian Piscator was a German theatre director and producer and, with Bertolt Brecht, the foremost exponent of epic theatre, a form that emphasizes the socio-political content of drama, rather than its emotional manipulation of the audience or on the production's formal...

's "Volksbũhne". The most important production of Nuova Scena was Mistero Buffo by Dario Fo.

She directed and produced theatrical events at Salone Pier Lombardo, Milan

Milan

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 (now Teatro Franco Parenti), with Franco Parenti and Andrée Ruth Shammah. In 1977, she became the director of the theater.

In 1982, Maimone created Studio Festi

Studio Festi

Studio Festi is an Italian artistic project and production centre bringing into being shows and grand installations.Founded in 1982 by Valerio Festi and Monica Maimone, Studio Festi operates from its main offices in Velate , its workshop in Venegono Superiore and, in 2010, it set up a branch in...

 with Valerio Festi

Valerio Festi

Valerio Festi is an Italian artistic director and producer. He is also the Chief Executive Officer at Studio Festi.-Biography:Valerio obtained his degree in 1978 at the University of Bologna....

. Since then, she has been the director and the playwright of all Studio Festi performances.

Monica Maimone is President of the Ipazia-Arte Foundation for the environment, which encourages artists to focus on the environment. The foundation has produced Deluge, a show first presented in Laikipia, Kenya.