Giovanni Morassutti

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Giovanni Morassutti
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Born
Giovanni Enrico Morassutti

15 March 1980 (age 42)
Padua [1]
Alma mater Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia
Years active2001– present
Family Morassutti [2]

Giovanni Enrico Morassutti (born in Padua, Veneto, Italy on 15 March 1980) is an Italian actor, [3] director, [4] artist, [5] writer [6] and cultural entrepreneur. [7] Since 2001 he has appeared in more than thirty films including independent films, international films, and prime time TV. [8] He is most known for having deepened the study of the Strasberg's Method [9] and for his involvement in sustainable practice in the arts, [10] being the founder of Art Aia - Creatives In Residence. [11]

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Early life

Giovanni Morassutti is the son of a German mother and an Italian father. [12] He began to be interested in acting and directing while attending high school when during a workshop for actors in his hometown, he met Susan Strasberg, who encouraged him to undertake this path. [13] In 1999, Giovanni moved to New York City and began to deepen the study of Method acting first as an auditor at the Actors Studio where he observed the sessions moderated by Arthur Penn, Estelle Parsons, Eli Wallach, Lee Grant among others, [14] and then as a student of Salem Ludwig at the HB Studio. [15] During that time, Giovanni worked as a busser and a bicycle messenger. [3]

After spending time in Paris, [16] where he studied sense memory with Sarah Eigerman, [17] he returned to New York where, in 2001, he met John Strasberg, [18] Susan's brother, and son of Lee and Paula, and began to study with him privately. [19] In New York, Giovanni started to work professionally in theatre and film with Ellen Stewart, founder of Cafe' La MaMa, [20] Ted Mornel, Kathleen M. Wilce, and Gus Van Sant, appearing in Last Days. [21]

Career

Morassutti returned to Italy in 2004, for being accepted at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia directed by Giancarlo Giannini [22] with whom he worked in prime time Italian TV series Il maresciallo Rocca e l'amico d'infanzia  [ it ] (2008) playing the younger version of the same character played by Giannini. [3] As actor he has played leading and supporting roles [23] in Italian [24] and International films [25] [26] working with Roberto Faenza, Franco Giraldi, Riccardo Milani, among others and presented at the Cannes Film Festival, the Cineteca di Bologna , and the Downtown Urban Arts Festival including I Viceré (2007 Cantante Lirico – Romeo), Ventisette: Farsi guardare può essere appagante (2011, Marco), [27] P.O.E. Poetry of Eerie  [ it ] (2013 Richard di Broglio), A Holy Venetian Family (2015 Ragazzo compro oro), Il mio giorno  [ it ] (2015 Juan), Luigo  [ it ] (2017 Zeno), Affittasi vita  [ it ] (2019 Salvo, competing for the David di Donatello Award), [28] Lola (2020 Damian, winning the Best Supporting Actor Award at the Empty Space Film Festival), [29] Fra due Battiti  [ it ] ( 2021 Giovanni attore) and An Approximation of their Barbarous Manners (2021 Ugo) alongside Bruce Glover. [30] His television roles include also the role of Robert in La Certosa di Parma (miniserie televisiva 2012)  [ it ] [31] and Unwanted directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel. [32]

As a stage actor, he worked with Bryan Reynolds and the Transversal Theater Company in Railroad, winner of the Tor Vergata Award at the Festival di Teatro Patologico directed by Dario D'Ambrosi (2020), [33] David Warren, among others, [34] and as a director, he worked with Lydia Biondi, staging a production of Sola in casa written by Dino Buzzati and presented in Rome [35] and at the Cherry Lane Theatre [36] in 2012, and also in Madre sin Pañuelo, a theatrical play based on the Dirty War produced by the Argentinian embassy during the Expo 2015. [37]

His last work as a theatre director is the production of When (2021) during Climate Change Theatre Action, [38] where he used only renewable energy such as solar panels in respect of the environment creating a cross-disciplinary event in collaboration with Italian environmentalist association Legambiente [39] among other partners such as the Regional Environmental Protection Agency (ARPA Fvg) to raise Climate change awareness. [40]

The site-specific theatre production has received a special mention by the Ca' Foscari University of Venice. [41]

In films, he wrote and directed Personal Dream Space, a documentary film based on the teachings of his mentor John Strasberg [42] with whom he has been working also as a coordinator of his workshops in Italy and Berlin, and wrote the foreword to the Italian version of his book Per scelta, per caso. Oltre l'Actors Studio (2016). [43] In 2020 he created an online exhibition about the Strasberg Legacy in collaboration with Google Arts & Culture. [44]

As a cultural entrepreneur, Morassutti founded the International art residency Art Aia – Creatives / In / Residence, [45] which fosters sustainability in the arts and cultural mobility, [46] promoting the history [47] and the natural beauty [1] of northeast Italian region Friuli Venezia Giulia and in 2016 he co-founded, in a former Spätkauf of Berlin, its subsidiary space by the name of Art Aia – La Dolce Berlin where he began his art practice as an artist. [48]

In 2022 Morassutti was invited as a speaker to present his project on sustanability in the arts at the International Conference on Opportunities in the Arts held by the TransCultural Exchange in Boston. [4]

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