Ilenia Cipollari
- Actress
Stage and screen actor with expertise in physical theatre and polyphonic singing.
She collaborated with Gambian multi-instrumentalist Sona Jobarteh, male Corsican polyphonic ensemble A Filetta, jazz singer Anna Maria Jopek, composers Jennifer Walshe and Neil Luck, among others. She has given solo and collaborative performances internationally, most notably at Bold Tendencies (UK), at the International Festival of Chamber music in San Paulo (Brazil), at Yale University on the occasion of Yale Repertory Theater's NO BOUNDARIES performance series (USA), at Tbilisi International Theater Festival (Georgia), at Battersea Arts Center (London), at Edinburgh Fringe Festival (Scotland), at Tramway art venue (Glasgow), at several editions of BRAVE festival in Wroclaw and many venues throughout Poland and Italy, among others.
Currently (2023-2027) undertaking a PhD at UAL, London. Research interests include contemporary gig theatre (special focus on choral singing and collective composition), post-dramatic theatre, trauma-informed psychoanalysis, feminist anthropology and feminist relational politics.
She collaborated with Gambian multi-instrumentalist Sona Jobarteh, male Corsican polyphonic ensemble A Filetta, jazz singer Anna Maria Jopek, composers Jennifer Walshe and Neil Luck, among others. She has given solo and collaborative performances internationally, most notably at Bold Tendencies (UK), at the International Festival of Chamber music in San Paulo (Brazil), at Yale University on the occasion of Yale Repertory Theater's NO BOUNDARIES performance series (USA), at Tbilisi International Theater Festival (Georgia), at Battersea Arts Center (London), at Edinburgh Fringe Festival (Scotland), at Tramway art venue (Glasgow), at several editions of BRAVE festival in Wroclaw and many venues throughout Poland and Italy, among others.
Currently (2023-2027) undertaking a PhD at UAL, London. Research interests include contemporary gig theatre (special focus on choral singing and collective composition), post-dramatic theatre, trauma-informed psychoanalysis, feminist anthropology and feminist relational politics.