Alessandra Abis
Master of Arts – Foreign Languages and Literature at the University of Studies of Bari with an experimental thesis about A. Wesker’s “One Woman’s Plays (Apulia-Italy 1993)”.
Diploma of Advanced – Imperial Society of Dancing Teachers (London – United Kingdom 1986).
Diploma of Acting – “International School for Comic Actors” (Emilia Romagna-Italy 1993).
Extraordinary participation XV – XVI Festival Juvenil European of Latin Greek Theatre in Segòbriga -Itàlica (Madrid and Seville – Spain 1998 / 1999).
Award XII International Prize “I Fliaci”, in Taranto (Apulia – Italy 2000).
Special participation V -VI -VIII International Festival of Classical Theatre for Young People (Palazzolo Acreide Sicily – Italy 1999 /2002).
Award “Stage@School.2005” – 2nd National Festival Bitonto School Theatre” (Bitonto – Apulia –Italy 2005).
He established and directs together with the artistic & drama director Arcangelo Adriani the stage company “Adriani Teatro”, association for stage production and actor’s training, financing by Puglia District.
She studied with Fernanda Calati, Ferruccio Soleri (Strelher’s Harlequin), Giorgio Albertazzi, Leo Gullotta, Pino Caruso, Marcello Prayer (Costa’s method), the Russian director Jurij Alschitz and the international actor and pedagogue Christian Di Domenico with which she works in the search of a Theatre that identifies her own artistic personality.
She gets a deep knowledge of the use of comic mask in ancient Theatre and in Comedy of The Arts and she specializes in the role of the clever servant in ancient Greek and Latin comedies, and in the role of Zanni in the Comedy of The Arts, Harlequin.
She creates her own masks in latex and she teaches Acting for schools of every order and degree, and University. For “The Actor’s Baggage” Drama School she taught Technique about the Use of the Stage Mask.
She is protagonist of many plays: “Voyage in the Greek World” (Andromaca), about Humerus’s Iliade and Odissey, Plauto’s “Miles Gloriosus or The Braggart Soldier” and “Curculio” (Palestrione and Curculio), “Harlequin Doctor Flyer” and “Harlequin, the Dentist” (Harlequin) about sixteenth century’s scenarios of Comedy of The Arts, “Without Makeup” about Chekhov’s “The Seagull” (Arkadina), “What about Mata Hari? ” (Mata Hari), “The Last Temptation of Socrates” from Plato’s philosophical dialogue “Ione Minor”(Socrates), the comedy “4 Mothers 4” from A. Wesker’s “Four Portraits of Mothers”, “Om Mani Padme Hum – sky and land”, about Buddha Philosophy, and “My first Forties” from Lella Costa’s “What a Face do?”.
In 2007 she directed on stage Christian Di Domenico, her own teacher, in “Lady Madness” from the “Praise of Folly” of Erasmo of Rotterdam.