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Essential biography

He graduated as a director at the “Silvio D’Amico” Accademia Nazionale d’Arte Drammatica in Rome under Andrea Camilleri’s supervision. Jodice was among the founders of the drama group libera mente of which he was artistic director. He co-directed the Centro di Ricerca Teatro Nuovo in Naples, from 1995 to 2000. He created and was artistic director of the Scuola Elementare del Teatro, a popular conservatoire for the scenic arts, an arts and social inclusion project. He is manager of the arts and social inclusion projects of the Teatro Trianon Viviani.

He collaborated, with various assignments, with Carmelo Bene, Leo De Berardinis, Carlo Cecchi, Roberto De Simone and with dancers and performers from Pina Bausch’s Tanz Theater, Maguy Marin’s Companie and Mark Morris’s Dance Group. He worked and is working with drama in different disadvantaged locations, such as the Ospedale Psichiatrico S. Maria della Pietà in Rome, in Volterra, Giudecca and Nola correctional institutions, in Naple public dormitory and in Secondigliano OPG (high-security psychiatric hospital).

His scenic and educational work was produced and hosted in Italy and France, U.K, Spain, Switzerland, Germany, Sweden as well. He created radio works for Rai Radio3 with the collaboration of Goffredo Fofi and Maurizio Braucci, the collective docufilm “Com’è bella la città”, with Roberta Torre, Pasquale Pozzessere, Giovanni Maderna; he is the main character and author of the scenic writing in “Gelsomina Verde” docufilm, directed by Massimiliano Pacifico. Iodice’s dramatic work is the subject of essays in national and international books and specialist magazines and of graduation and doctorate dissertations at various universities and art schools such as Napoli, Salerno, Milano, Bologna, Pisa, Palermo, Pavia, Cagliari, Siena. The volume “La poetica teatrale di Davide Iodice, by Marina Sorge has been recently published by Ediz. Università di Napoli L’Orientale.

 

Awards and recognitions

2022 - Premio La fiaba magica

2019 – Premio ANCT  (Drama critics’ award)

2017 -  Finalist at Premio Le Maschere del Teatro Italiano, for “Mal’essere”, based on Shakespeare’s “Hamlet”, rewritten in Neapolitan by De Lisa, Fernandez, Caricchia, Romano, Perrotta, Rossa (rappers). Dramaturgy and direction by Davide Iodice.

2016 – Finalist at Premio le Maschere del Teatro Italiano for “Euridice e Orfeo”, by Valeria Parrella. Adapted and directed by Davide Iodice.

2009 –Girulà Teatro a Napoli Award for “’A Sciaveca”, by Mimmo Borrelli, adapted by Mimmo Borrelli and Davide Iodice

2005 Nomination Premio Golden Graal for Psicosi 4.48 Cantico based on Sarah Kane

2000 Girulà Teatro a Napoli Award for La Tempesta, dormiti gallina dormiti, based on William Shakespeare, Neapolitan rewriting by Silvestro Sentiero. Directed by Davide Iodice

1999 Ubu Special Award for La Tempesta, dormiti gallina dormiti, based on William Shakespeare, Neapolitan rewriting by Silvestro Sentiero. Directed by Davide Iodice

1998 Premio Lo Straniero

1995 Premio Ubu as Best Show of the Year for Finale di Partita, directed by Carlo Cecchi, of which he is assistant director

1997 Mention at premi Ubu for Senza naso né padroni, una specie di Pinocchio, by Marcello Amore and  Sergio Longobardi. Adapted and directed by Davide Iodice.

1993 Honourable Mention at Eti Scenario National Award for Dove gli angeli esitano, by Davide Iodice and Carmelo Pizza. Directed by Davide Iodice and Carmelo Pizza

1992 Winner at the national  selection of Pèpiniére Internationale

1991 Winner of the “Roberto Mazzucco”, SIAD (Società Italiana Autori Drammatici) scholarship for young drama directors

 

 

CURRICULUM VITAE

EDUCATION

In 1991 he graduated as a director at the Accademia Nazionale d’Arte Drammatica “Silvio D’Amico in Rome under the supervision of Andrea Camilleri.

During the three years course he studied with (among others) Ghennadi Bogdanov, Orazio Costa, Angelo Corti, Marisa Fabbri, Mario Ferrero, Marise Flach, Massimo Foschi, Nikolaj Karpov, Adriana Martino, Luigi M. Musati, Elena Povoledo, Giorgio Pressburger, Giuseppe Rocca, Luca Ronconi, Lorenzo Salveti, Enzo Siciliano, Paolo Terni.

ESSENTIAL DRAMATOGRAPHY

2020

TRIANON OPERA tra pupi sceneggiata e belcanto
by Roberto De Simone
Staging by Roberto De Simone and Davide Iodice

Produced by Teatro Trianon
Rai 5

 Em-body – enciclopedia delle emozioni

Dramaturgy by Nunzio Caponio
Directed by Davide Iodice

Produced by Sardegna Teatro

2019

La Luna
a route of research and creation from waste, scraps and the collective repressed
Creation, dramaturgy and direction by Davide Iodice

Produced by Napoli Teatro Festival Italia – Teatri Associati Napoli

2018

donchisci@tte
by Nunzio Caponio
Adapted and directed by Davide Iodice

with Alessandro Benvenuti and Stefano Fresi
Produced by Arca Azzurra Teatro

URANIA D’AGOSTO

by Lucia Calamaro
Adapted and directed by Davide Iodice
with Maria Grazia Sughi and Michela Atzeni

Produced by Sardegna Teatro

2017

MAL’ESSERE (finalist at Premio Le Maschere del teatro italiano 2017)
based on Hamlet by William Shakespeare

Ideation, dramaturgy and direction by Davide Iodice
Neapolitan re-writing by Gianni ‘O Yank De Lisa (Fuossera), Pasquale Sir Fernandez (Fuossera),
Alessandro Joel Caricchia, Paolo Sha One Romano, Ciro Op Rot Perrotta, Damiano Capatosta Rossi

produced by Teatro Stabile di Napoli – Sardegna Teatro

SONNAI

A route of search and creation upon contemporary dreams, nightmares and visions # 3 Cagliari
Ideation, dramaturgy and direction by Davide Iodice

Collective scenic writing based on dreams, memories, biographis, poems by guests and users of Caritas’s reception facilities and social welfare services in Cagliari

2016

DRÖMMAR

A route of search and creation upon contemporary dreams, nightmares and visions # 2 Goteborg
Ideation, dramaturgy and direction by Davide Iodice

Original texts and re-writings by Isabel Cruz Ljiegren

set, costumes and masks by Tiziano Fario
Collective scenic writing based on dreams, memories, biographies, poems by guests and users of Goteborg Stadmissionen reception facilities and social welfare services

produced by Folkteatern Goteborg

2015

EURIDICE E ORFEO (finalist at Le maschere premio del Teatro italiano Award 2016)

by Valeria Parrella
adapted and directed by Davide Iodice

set, costumes and masks by Tiziano Fario
produced by Teatro Bellini – Napoli

THE VEIL / IL VELO

workshop directed by Davide Iodice
produced byTeatro Stabile di Napoli
in collaboration with Folkteatern Goteborg
within the Cities on Stage / Città in Scena project
supported by European Commission

2014

METTERSI NEI PANNI DEGLI ALTRI |VESTIRE GLI IGNUDI

first movement of the research and creative project What's the point if only you save yourself
inspired by  Le sette opere di Misericordia by Caravaggio

dramaturgy and direction by Davide Iodice
general collaboration by Luigi Del Parto

scenic space, masks and costumes by Tiziano Farioproduced by Teatro Stabile di Napoli, Interno 5, Fondazione Campania dei Festival – Napoli Teatro Festival Italia with the collaboration of Centro Prima Accoglienza (ex Dormitorio Pubblico), Scarp De Tenis, Binario della Solidarietà – Napoli

2013

MEMENTO – MOMENTO PER SERGIO BRUNI

structural chamber composition by Roberto De Simone
with Nino D’Angelo and Orchestra Barocca Pietà de’ Turchini, Giuliana Soscia/Pino Jodice jazz quartet, Complesso di corde a Pizzica, arpa Giuliana De Donno, pianoforte Mimmo Napolitano

works by Mimmo Paladino
directed by Davide Jodice

Napoli Teatro San Carlo

 MANGIARE E BERE LETAME E MORTE

dramaturgy and direction by Davide Iodice
with Alessandra Fabbri
choreography by Alessandra Fabbri e Davide Iodice
produced by Interno5, Napoli.

2012

UN GIORNO TUTTO QUESTO SARÀ TUO

dramaturgy and direction by Davide Iodice
with Ilenya Caleo and her father Paolo, Davide Compagnone and his mother Anna, Alessandra Fabbri and her father Alessandro,Tania Garribba and her mother Luisa, Stefano Miglio, Mattia Castelli

set and masks by Tiziano Fario
costumes by Enzo Pirozzi
light design by Angelo Grieco
sound design Diego Iacuz
produced by Teatro Stabile di Napoli, Fondazione Campania dei Festival

 2010

LA FABBRICA DEI SOGNI

A route of search and creation upon contemporary dreams, nightmares and visions together with the guests of Neaples doss-house
dramaturgy and direction by Davide Iodice

produced by Napoli Teatro Festival Italia – Teatro Mercadante

2008

‘A SCIAVECA  (Girulà- Teatro a Napoli Award, 2009)
by Mimmo Borrelli

adapted by Mimmo Borrelli and Davide Iodice
directed by Davide Iodice produced by Teatro Mercadante di Napoli.


Davide Jodice directs the Piedigrotta performances, in Plebiscito Square, with the participation, among others, of Maestro Josè Carreras, of the actors Sofia Loren and Giancarlo Giannini and of the songwriter Lucio Dalla.

 2006

ZINGARI

by Raffaele Viviani
with Nino D’Angelo e Angela Pagano
directed byDavide Iodice
produced by Teatro Mercadante di Napoli.

2005

APPUNTI PER UNO SPETTACOLO ITALIANO – PROGETTO PETROLIO

based on Pier Paolo Pasolini,
dramaturgy and direction Davide Iodice
produced by Teatro Mercadante Napoli.

PSICOSI 4.4.8/CANTICO (nomination at Premio Golden Graal)

da Sarah Kane
adattamento e regia Davide Iodice
produzione Teatro San Leonardo di Bologna, libera mente

I COSTRUTTORI D’IMPERI

by Boris Vian
with Alessandro Benvenuti
directed by Davide Iodice
produced by Benvenuti srl – Festival di Castiglioncello

2004

IL COMMENCEMENT DEL COMMENCEMENT

scenic essay dedicated to Leo de Berardinis for  Leo’s Theatre
dramaturgy and direction by Davide Iodice.

LA BELLEZZA

dramaturgy and direction by Davide Iodice
produced by Tirano Fest Teatro- libera mente

2003

IL GIARDINO NERO

based on Agota Kristof
dramaturgy and direction by Davide Iodice
produced by libera mente.

2002

DAMMI ALMENO UN RAGGIO DI SOLE

tribute to Federico Fellini
dramaturgy and direction by Davide Iodice e Rojsten Abel
produced by Sant’Arcangelo di Teatri – libera mente

2001

I GIGANTI, FAVOLA PER GENTE FERMA

based on L. Pirandello, with the artists of Circo Rois
dramaturgy by Davide Iodice and Silvestro Sentiero
produced by Biennale di Venezia, Berliner Fiestspiele, libera mente

2000

THE CROWDED STOMACH

a dance-theatre performance with Benji Reid,
dramaturgy and direction by Davide Iodice
produced by Yorkshire Dance – Leeds

1999

LA TEMPESTA, DORMITI GALLINA DORMITI (Ubu 1999 Award, Girulà -Teatro a Napoli 2000 Award)

based on W. Shakespeare
neapolitan re-writing by Silvestro Sentiero
directed by Davide Iodice
produced by Crt Milano – libera mente

IO NON MI RICORDO NIENTE

dramaturgy and direction by Davide Iodice and Mauro Maggioni
produced by Crest Taranto – libera mente

1998

I BAMBINI DELLA CITTÀ DI K

based on  A. Kristov
dramaturgy and direction by Davide Iodice
produced by libera mente

1997

STORIA SPETTACOLARE DI GUYELMO EL PASADO CHE VOLEVA ROVESCIARE IL MONDO

by Maurizio Braucci
directed by Davide Iodice
produced by libera mente – DAMM

1996

CHE BELLA GIORNATA!
based on M. De Ghelderode’s Cristoforo Colombo (Lo Straniero Award)

dramaturgy and direction by Davide Iodice
produced by libera mente -Festival di Sant’Arcangelo directed by Leo De Berardinis


CORE PAZZO

musical performance by and with Nino D’ Angelo
directed by Davide Iodice

1995

NELLA SOLITUDINI DEI CAMPI DI COTONE

based on B.M. Koltes
produced by Teatro Nuovo, Napoli

SENZA NASO NÉ PADRONI, UNA SPECIE DI PINOCCHIO (premio Ubu ’97 mentions)

by Marcello Amore and Sergio Longobardi
directed by Davide Iodice

1994

GRANDE CIRCO INVALIDO

based on M. Lodoli
dramaturgy and direction by Davide Iodice
produced by Teatro Vascello- La Fabbrica dell’Attore, Roma

1993

DOVE GLI ANGELI ESITANO (special mention at Premio Nazionale ETI Scenario)

dramaturgy and direction by Davide Iodice e Carmelo Pizza
produced by libera mente

1992

USCITA D’EMERGENZA

by M. Santanelli
directed by Davide Iodice
Graduation recital, Teatro- Studio Eleonora Duse, Roma

STAR DI CASA

experimental drama in the houses, based on various authors
dramaturgy and direction by Davide Iodice, produced by Centrale dell’Arte Firenze.

1990

LA MORTE DI EMPEDOCLE
based on  F. Holderlin

dramaturgy and direction by Davide Iodice
produced by Teatro Argot, Roma

ARTISTIC DIRECTIONS AND PROJECT MANAGEMENTS

2023 -2020  He took charge of Teatro Trianon Viviani social inclusion and art projects

2019 -2013  He conducted the Scuola Elementare del Teatro, a popular conservatoire for the scenic arts that he created

2009-2006 – He designed some actions about art and sociiality at Teatro Trianon in Naples

2008 – He collaborated at the artistic direction of Piedigrotta

2008-1992 - He has been directing the LIBERA MENTE group, that he founded, too. The group was involved with artistic productions, an intense educational activity and with organizing and promoting cultural actions

2005-2001 – He was among the leading creators of the TEATRI DI NAPOLI project, achieved with the collaboration of the Cultural department of Naples Municipality and together with other research drama groups. Their common goal was to realise a net of drama residencies in salvaged structures in the Neapolitan outskirts. This was one of the first Italian examples of “light city theatre” and of coordination among production structures with a public/private participation

Within Teatri di Napoli he was the artistic director of Scuola Elementare del Teatro at the Scialoja Gym in S. Giovanni a Teduccio, a residence that was retrieved by the group and which was a creative workshop for the institutions of contemporary drama

He was among the creators and artistic directors of the Festival di Teatro Contemporaneo Teatri in Napoli, the most recent invention along with the project.

2000-1995 He was artistic co-director of the Centro di Ricerca Teatrale, at Teatro Nuovo in Naples

2000-1999 – He designed and looked after “Casa-laboratorio”, a permanent workshop of research, creation and production, at Milan CRT.

1993 He designed and directed Cantieri/Sora, a shared festival, with creative ateliers of drama, poetry, films, music and visual arts, in collaboration with the first reception Center Il Faro and Sora municipality.

 ARTISTIC COLLABORATIONS

2013 – He collaborated with Maestro Roberto De Simone at the production of the event Momento/Memento for Teatro San Carlo in Naples

1998 – He collaborated with Carmelo Bene’s “Nostra Signora dei Turchi” for the Macbeth Horror Suite show as  assistant of set designer Tiziano Fario

1995 – He worked as assistant director for Finale di partita, directed by Carlo Cecchi (1995 best show Ubu award)

He collaborated with puppeteer Bruno Leone and with musical group ‘E Zezi from Pomigliano d’Arco for Il convitato di pezza, seeing to the production

1994 – He collaborated with choreographer Livia Patrizi for the dance-theatre show  Pas Perdu: he looks after the dramatic part, at the Scene Nationelle in Dieppe and at the Théatre du Chatillon in Paris, with dancers coming from Pina Bausch’s, Mark Morris’s and Maguy Marin’s companies

1992 – He collaborated with Carmelo Bene’s “Nostra Signora dei Turchi” for “Pinocchio” show, as assistant of set designer Tiziano Fario.

1990 – He was assistant director of Luigi M. Musati for “Morte per acqua” , Teatro Argot – Roma

1988 – He was assistant director of Andreas Rallis for “Sette contro Tebe”, Teatro Argot, Roma.

He collaborated many times with “Teatro di Leo”, directed by Leo De Berardinis

EDUCATOR

2019/2013 – Scuola Elementare del Teatro, a permanent workshop of scenic arts, Napoli

2018 – He designed and saw to the educational workshops within the project “Forcella Strit”, at the Trianon Teatro in Naples.

2013 – 2010  - Ri-creazioni, travelling workshop for actors and dancers, Madrid – Palermo – Milano – Napoli – Caserta

2012 – “Dentro la tempesta” (Inside the tempest)i a workshop of scenic creation in three movements within the Residenza Teatrale 90 for Scenari Visibili. Teatro Politeama, Lamezia Terme

2011 – Figli (Children), a workshop of research and creation for actors/dancers and their parents, about transitions and generation gaps.Teatro Mercadante, La Corte Ospitale – Rubiera, Teatro San Ferdinando, Napoli

2010 – Della stessa sostanza dei sogni (Of the same matter as dreams), a workshop together with the users of  ASP Cosenza  Mental Health Centers, Piccolo Teatro Unical, Università della Calabria, supported by Associazione Zahir

2008 – Educational workshop within the Punta Corsara project.  Lectureship during the Progetto Interregionale di Alta Formazione for actors, on behalf of Teatro Nuovo, Napoli

2006-2005 – L’anima sotto le pietre (Soul under the stones), a workshop about education and production about Raffaele Viviani’s works, on behalf of Teatro Mercadante Napoli

2002 – 2001 – Zampanò, a workshop about education and production for Ert – Emilia Romagna Teatro and S.Arcangelo dei Teatri

2000 – Phase à Phrase, international workshop for actors and dancers, Dansem, Marsiglia, together with Raffaella Giordano, Alain Behar, Genevè Sorin

1995 – 1992  He conducted various workshops on scenic creation designed for students and teachers of  schools at all levels, on behalf of Libera Mente

1992 – He collaborated with Marina Francesconi in the integrated workshop of drama-therapy at the Ospedale Psichiatrico S. Maria della Pietà in Rome.

 ANTHROPOLOGICAL AND COMMUNITY PROJECTS

Besides the specific work of creation and production, he has been conducting an intense anthropological research looking for a living combination between living artistic work and the “social”, “public” intention and praxis as well. This is meant through direct involvement of those areas and living communities which are hidden and still culturally resilient in their identity.

2022 Happening of Human Books – Procida Capitale della Cultura 2022

2007 Project Il Verso dell’acqua – lago d’Averno, languages, memories, miythologies and narrations  of Area Flegrea with the collaboration of  dramatist Mimmo Borrelli

2004 Project Ex Volto, ‘secular mass” in the Basilica di Tirano on community memories and stories

1993 Project Sipari – Prato, on memories and stories of the Campolmi factory workers

1992 Transitions, within the Cantieri  – Sora project on community memories and stories

RADIO

2002 |2001 SALA GIOCHI, radio novel in episodes by Goffredo Fofi and Maurizio Braucci, directed by Davide Iodice. Radio3 Rai

2001 UN TAGLIO ATTRAVERSO, radio drama by Maurizio Braucci featuring Raiz degli Alma Megretta, Luca Zulu dei 99 Posse e Speaker Cenzou, directed by Davide Iodice. Radio 3 Rai Atto unico Presente

VIDEO

1997 Napoli in corpo, within the video documentary Com’è bella la città, a project by Goffredo Fofi for Rome municipality, in collaboration with Roberta Torre, Giovanni Maderna, Pasquale Pozzessere .

FILM

2018 He was the main actor in the film Gelsomina Verde, by Massimiliano Pacifico, produced by Rai Cinema e Lama Film. He looked after the drama contents

AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS

2019 Premio Associazione Nazionale Critici di Teatro

2017 Mal’essere è finalist at Premio Le Maschere del Teatro Italiano

2016 Euridice e Orfeo è finalist at Premio Le Maschere del Teatro Italiano

2009 Girulà Teatro a Napoli Award for ‘A Sciaveca

2006 Nomination  Golden Graal  Award for direction of Psicosi 4.48/Cantico based on Sarah Kane

2000 Girulà Teatro a Napoli Award for La Tempesta dormiti gallina dormiti

1999 Premio Speciale Ubu per La Tempesta, dormiti gallina dormiti

1998 Premio Lo Straniero

1997 Segnalazioni premio Ubu per Senza naso né padroni, una specie di Pinocchio

1995 Premio Ubu to Finale di Partita, as “show of the year,” directed by Carlo Cecchi and he was his assistant director

1993 Menzione speciale Premio Nazionale Eti Scenario for Dove gli angeli esitano

1992 Vincitore selezione nazionale Pèpiniére Internationale

1991 Winner of the SIAD “Roberto Mazzucco” scholarship to young directors (SIAD Italian Society of drama authors)

PARTICIPATION IN NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL SHOWS, CIRCUITS AND  FESTIVALS

Over the years, his shows have been distributed all over the country, participating in various festival of contemporary drama. Among the others: Santarcangelo dei Teatri, Volterra Teatro, Polverigi Inteatro, Teatri90, Angeli a Sud, Primavera dei teatri, Tirano Fest Teatro, Drodesera, Festival delle Colline Torinesi, Enzimi – Roma, Palermo di Scena, Festival di Spoleto, Biennale di Venezia, Napoli Teatro Festival Italia. Abroad, his shows have been performed during the following festivals: Festival de l’Ensenyament Secundari Public de Catalunya, Berga (Barcellona), allo Yorkshire Dance di Leeds al Green Rooms di Manchester, alla Scene Nationale di Dieppe, al Theatre Chatillon di Parigi al Berline Fiestspiele, al Folkteatern di Goteborg (Svezia)

WRITINGS AND PARTICIPATIONS

La luna, edizioni da Tre soldi

Mal’essere, in the volume Il Teatro dopo Eduardo a cura di Luciana Libero –Kairos Edizioni

Il maestro nel deserto in La terza vita di Leo, di Claudio Meldolesi, edizioni Titivillus 2010

Il bello è brutto. Il Brutto è bello, in A CB A Carmelo Bene, a cura di Gioia Costa, Editoria e Spettacolo 2003

SOME WRITINGS ABOUT DAVIDE JODICE’S THEATRE

Libera Mente: un circo di folli nel degrado urbano, ETINFORMA, II, special issue, Roma, gennaio 1997, a cura di Cristina Ventrucci

Nuova scena italiana. Il teatro dell’ultima generazione, Stefania Chinzari – Paolo Ruffini, , Castelvecchi, Roma, 2000.

Giganti sotto la tenda del circo, a cura di Massimo Marino ART’O. Rivista di cultura e politica delle arti sceniche 2001

Il teatro a Napoli negli anni ’90, a cura di Edoardo S.Elia. Pironti, Napoli, 2004.

libera mente, a cura di Goffredo Fofi. Prove Aperte XI gennaio 2005

Campania Contemphorary Theatre Diary 10 a cura di Marzia D’Alesio e Francesca Nicodemo. Phoebus Edizioni, Napoli 2010

Il tempo a Napoli, Piermario Vescovo. Marsilio, Venezia 2011

Tecnologie della Finzione. L’effimero e la città, a cura di Vittorio Fiore, ed. Lettera 22, 2011

La Poetica Teatrale di Davide Iodice, Marina Sorge edizione Università Federico II Napoli 2021

 

His theatre was subject-matter of various dissertations at Università degli Studi di Napoli L’Orientale, Accademia di Belle Arti di Napoli, Università degli Studi in Palermo, Salerno, Pavia, Pisa, Cagliari.