Giampaolo Gotti

Director, actor, trainer, theatre theorist, and translator. Since his master's degree at GITIS, the Russian Theatre Academy in Moscow, he has collaborated on various projects with his mentors Anatoly Vassiliev and Yuri Alschitz.

His artistic journey has been described in Kokolampoe, un théâtre école plurilingue dans les Guianas, by Pierre Chambert, L’Entretemps, Montpellier 2015, while his personal pedagogical approach has been recently summarized in: Philosophies du jeu no. 313 of the journal Études de lettres, 2020; Socrate non va in piazza, La Meridiana, Barletta, 2020; Can acting be learned?, Les Solitaires Intempestifs, Besançon, 2015; Théâtre Contemporain Orient-Occident, L’Entretemps, Montpellier, 2012. He edited the dossier "Anatoli Vassiliev: Tradition, Pédagogie, Utopie," no. 182 of the magazine Théâtre/Public.

After obtaining the French State Diploma in Theatre Teaching, he joined the teaching team of the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts et Techniques du Théâtre (ENSATT) in Lyon and teaches in Paris at the Université Paris 8, the Université d'Evry, and at the Acting International and L'Ecole du jeu schools. He is a lecturer at the World Theatre Training Institute AKT-ZENT in Berlin, at the Centre dramatique de Guyane, the Conservatoire de la Réunion, and the Ecole International de Théâtre du Bénin.

He has translated several works by Giovanni Testori into French, which have received awards from the Maison Antoine Vitez, while Gabbathà, one of his latest shows, received the Teatri del sacro 2015 award. Since 2016 he has taught Theatrical Improvisation at the Dimitri Academy.