Marco Paolini
Marco Paolini is an Italian stage actor, theatre director, dramaturge and author.
Personal background
Paolini is the son of a railroad engineer and a housewife from Belluno, Italy. In the 1970s, he moved to Treviso and started working in theatre.Professional background
Paolini's repertory includes civil theatre. His performances usually consist of monologues with frequent use of the Venetian language, irony and satire. Inspired by Dario Fo, he is an Italian exponent of narrative theatre.Until 1994, Paolini worked with various theatre groups, including Teatro degli Stracci, Studio 900 of Treviso, Tag Teatro of Mestre in Venice and Laboratorio Teatro Settimo. In 1995, received the Ubu Prize for writing Il racconto del Vajont, which was dedicated to the disaster of the Vajont Dam in Italy. The ceremony aired on Rai 2 Italian television.
Since 1999, he has produced his own works with his company JoleFilm. He has also collaborated with the Italian folk band I Mercanti di Liquore, along with the lead singer, Lorenzo Monguzzi.
Theatre
Source:- Album teatrali
- Il racconto del Vajont
- Appunti forestali
- Il milione – Quaderno veneziano di Marco Paolini
- Appunti foresti dal Milione quaderno veneziano
- I Bestiari
- I-TIGI Canto per Ustica
- Parlamento chimico – Storie di plastica
- Song no. 32
- Karma-Kola
- Teatro Civico, sei monologhi per Report
- Album dal teatro alla televisione
- Miserabili – Io e Margaret Thatcher
- Il Sergente
- Album d'Aprile
- La macchina del capo
- Ausmerzen
- ''Itis Galileo''
Filmography
- Manila Paloma Blanca – Daniele Segre
- Caro diario – Nanni Moretti
- The Bull – Carlo Mazzacurati
- Little Teachers – Daniele Luchetti
- Ritratti: Mario Rigoni Stern – C. Mazzacurati and M. Paolini
- Holy Tongue – Carlo Mazzacurati
- Vivere – Franco Bernini
- A cavallo della tigre – Carlo Mazzacurati
Discography
- Marco Paolini legge Ernesto Calzavara
- Sputi, with the "Mercanti di Liquore"
- Marcovaldo di Calvino letto da Paolini
- Miserabili with the "Mercanti di Liquore"