Fabrizio Paladin

**Fabrizio Paladin**
award winning actor, playwright, director

Fabrizio Paladin is an award winning Italian actor, playwright, director and musician. He holds a graduate degree from the University of Bologna in Literature and Philosophy and possesses extensive expertise in Commedia dell'Arte and improvisation.

Fabrizio has taught classes and workshops in slapstick comedy, Commedia dell'Arte and improvisation across Italy, Portugal, Latvia, Ukraine, Germany, and Spain, among others. In the United States, he has taught at several renowned institutions, including Bowdoin College, Bates College, the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, and the Actors Movement Studio in New York.

He was the winner of "Premio Omaggio a Giorgio Gaber" and received the nomination for Best Actor at the Rome Fringe Festival in 2015. His book about Commedia, mask, and improvisation, "Il Teatro e la Maschera", was published in Italy in 2008 by FIRENZELIBRI.

His production "Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, the strange show" won the second edition of the International Theatre Festival Calanchi, was selected for the 2015 Rome Fringe Festival, and was the subject of a Master's thesis at the Ca' Foscari University of Venice.

He was interviewed and featured in the volume "COMMEDIA DELL'ARTE. VOCI, VOLTI, VOLI." (edited by Fausto Sesso, Ed. Moretti e Vitali, Italy, 2015).

Nominated for Best Actor at the Rome Fringe Festival (2015).

Winner of 1st prize at the "Stazioni d'Emergenza per le nuove Creatività" competition in 2016 with his production "Hamle-Tronic" at the Galleria Toledo Theatre in Naples.

Dramaturg and translator for productions directed by Aaron Cromie in collaboration with the University of the Arts (Philadelphia, USA): "Carlo VS Carlo" (Aaron Cromie) and "The Blue Monster" (Carlo Gozzi).

Fabrizio is the author of numerous stage plays, performed in Italy, Portugal, Germany, Latvia, Ukraine, Israel, Spain, and the United States.