Luigi Squarzina (18 February 1922 – 8 October 2010) was an Italian theatre dramatist and director. Born in

Livorno Livorno () is a port city on the Ligurian Sea on the western coast of Tuscany, Italy. It is the capital of the Province of Livorno, having a population of 158,493 residents in December 2017. It is traditionally known in English as Leghorn (pronou ...

, Squarzina studied in Rome, at the Liceo Classico Tasso, where he had

Vittorio Gassman Vittorio Gassman (; born Gassmann; 1 September 1922 – 29 June 2000), popularly known as , was an Italian actor, director and screenwriter. He is considered one of the greatest Italian actors, whose career includes both important productions ...

as classmate. He got a degree

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in Law, then he graduated as a director at the

Silvio d’Amico Academy of Dramatic Arts Accademia Nazionale d'Arte Drammatica Silvio D'Amico (translation: Silvio d'Amico National Academy of Dramatic Arts) is a national drama school in Rome, Italy. Founded in 1936 by the theatrical theorist, critic, and writer Silvio D'Amico, the ac ...

. He debuted as a stage director in 1944 with an adaptation of Steinbeck's '' Of Mice and Men''. In 1949, Squarzina debuted as a playwright with ''The Universal Exhibition'', which was never represented in Italy due to censorship. After directing the Teatro Ateneo in Rome, in 1952 he co-founded with

the Teatro d'arte italiano ("Italian Theatre of Art"). Squarzina later directed the Teatro Stabile in Genoa between 1972 and 1976 and later the Teatro Stabile in Rome, from 1976 to 1983. Squarzina was also active as a scholar and as a director of the theater section of the ''

Encyclopedia of Performing Arts The ''Encyclopedia of Performing Arts'' (Italian: ''Enciclopedia dello Spettacolo''; sometimes cited as ''Enciclopedio dello Spettacolo'') was an Italian language specialty encyclopedia of performing arts, published between 1954 and 1965. Its firs ...

'' by

Silvio D'Amico Silvio D'Amico (3 February 1887 in Rome – 1 April 1955 in Rome) was an Italian theatre critic, journalist, and theorist of Italian theater. Not a Fascist himself, D'Amico was the major theater critic during the ''ventennio'', the twenty years ...

. He was also an occasional actor, and for his debut performance in

Francesco Rosi Francesco Rosi (; 15 November 1922 – 10 January 2015) was an Italian film director. His film ''The Mattei Affair'' won the Palme d'Or at the 1972 Cannes Film Festival. Rosi's films, especially those of the 1960s and 1970s, often appeared to ha ...

's '' The Mattei Affair'' he won the

Silver Ribbon The Nastro d'Argento, also known by its translated name Silver Ribbon, is an Italian film award awarded each year since 1946 by the Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists (Italian: ''Sindacato Nazionale Giornalisti Cinematografici Italiani ...

for best new actor.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Squarzina, Luigi 1922 births 2010 deaths People from Livorno Italian dramatists and playwrights Italian theatre directors Accademia Nazionale di Arte Drammatica Silvio D'Amico alumni Nastro d'Argento winners Italian male film actors 20th-century Italian dramatists and playwrights

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