Katia Capato

 Actress, director, stage designer

Born in Chivasso, inside the suburbs of Turin, on March 11th 1973, she made the language of theatre her way for personal, professional and social growth,  finding in it the favorite place of synthesis of the various  disciplines of thoughts and arts.

By today she is director and owner of Sala Scicluna committed to the Arts of Theatre, named in memory of her husband, the actor, dramaturge and Maltese director Joseph Scicluna, died on January 2017.

After she earned the artistic high school diploma at Primo Liceo Artistico of Turin, she continued her studies shifting her attention from the figurative arts to performing arts.

Selected by the professional company of theatre and research, Marcido Marcidorjs and Famosa Mimosa, nel 1993, she started her career by undertaking following a training course on the model of the centuries-old Italian theatrical tradition, made up of intense daily triainings under the direction of a master and alongside actors with a consolidated experience for the mise-en-scene of shows. As an actress in training inside the company she has participated in shows made with strong visual, choral and choreographic impact represented throughout Italy at renowned theaters and matinees for students, thus transforming herself from a student to a professional actress trained and experienced. Discipline and rigor combined with creativity, research and evocative skills, assimilated in five years of apprenticeship, have set the solid base for her entire career.

In 1997, thanks to this experience, she founded together with Domenico Castaldo, actor, director and playwright trained by the masters Luca Ronconi and Jerzy Grotowski, the Laboratorio Permanente di Ricerca sull'Arte dell'Attore (LabPerm by D.Castaldo). Production, training and research distinguish the mark making the company active nationally and internationally. LabPerm, inspired by both the Italian tradition and the contemporary research, has produced works, with the support of the Regione Piemonte, the Città di Torino, Sistema Teatro Torino, capable of probing the most varied theatrical languages. Over the years, through an intense production activity and theatrical research, LabPerm has formed and directed many young Italian and foreign talents towards the theatrical career .

Katia Capato is still working with LabPerm as actress, singer and trainer.

Since 2006 she  joined the profession of actress as director and set designer. The professional meeting with the Maltese actor and playwright Joseph Scicluna and the creation of performances and shows of Maltese and Italian production, have been an opportunity to express these skills, matured and grew through years of experience. The consolidated collaboration, assumed a characteristic style and aesthetic connotation, and enriched by historical, scientific and artistic themes, required in 2012 the identification of the works produced under a new name and brand: the theater company Nuove Cosmogonie Teatro.

The peculiarity of Nuove Cosmogonie Teatro is that of combining a careful historical research of the themes, the imaginative potential of theatrical language, obtaining shows rich in content and at the same time strongly evocative and poetic. A balanced dose of irony and comedy gives the right weight to representations making them accessible to an audience made of adults and children.

In more than twenty years, Katia Capato, in addition to participate as actress at the above named companies’ productions, has been directed by some Italian director: Roberto Bacci, Fabio Comana, Beppe Rosso and foreign: Peter Busuttil (Malta) e Antonis Diamantis (Crete).

Since 2013 she joined the project of scientific disclosure “Il Fisico in Teatro” of SaperCapire research group aimed on divulging scientific topics which results difficult in most of the case, making them curious, funny and above all interesting.

She currently lives and works in Turin.

NUOVE COSMOGONIE TEATRO PRODUCTIONS by K. Capato & J. Scicluna (2006-2016):

        CARAVAGGIO IN BIANCO E NERO

        XICLUNA COMIX TRIO BAND

        ME CHEETA! ...AND YOU?!

        ADDIO DEL PASSATO

        I ROVINATI

        BRINDISI COSMOGONICO Atto I e Atto II

        PILLOLE DI GUERRA...CALDA (versione italiana) e Gwerra Familti...u Ommi (maltese version)

        L'UOMO CHE PESO' IL MONDO

  LabPerm di D. CASTALDO PRODUCTIONS (1997-2014):

        TAMERLANO

        VOLTERRA ALL’INFERNO

        ANTIGONE O LE FURIE

        ANTIGONE O LA DISOBBEDIENZA

        I CANTI DI ANTIGONE

        LE ARGONAUTICHE

        GILGAMESH

        GIONA: Suoni e racconti del Medirerraneo

        QUINTO ELEMENTO

        Il VERBO degli UCCELLI/ anno II: In cerca d’autore

        BIRD’S PARADE

        I CANTI di SIMURGH

        ROSE’S ACTION

        REGINA METEORA. Delirio amoroso di Katarijna Ludmijlla II

        SUONA NAPOLI…OPPUR MUORI

        KATHARSIS Project of Research/2007- 2010 

        KING J. LEAR project

        ENTRATE

        SWEET LIMBO / LIVE

        I NOMI FANNO IL MONDO

        FRUITS of THE GARDEN PROJECT/SONGS 

        LITURGIA

        LA CELEBRAZIONE

        DONNARUMMA ALL'ASSALTO

        PICCOLA GUERRA PERFETTA

        WELCOMING! THE END OF THE WORLD

        FIGURELLE

        CANTO D'ANIME

        METROP'SOULS 

   MARCIDO MARCIDORJS E FAMOSA MIMOSA PRODUCTIONS directed by M. Isidori (1993-1997):

        L’UOMO DAL FIORE IN BOCCA

        IL CIELO IN UNA STANZA

        SPETTACOLO

        LA LOCANDIERA DI CARLO GOLDONI E’ INCIAMPATA NEL TEATRINO DEI MARCIDO: CONSEGUENZE

        L’ISI FA PINOCCHIO MA SFAR LO MONDO DESIEREBBE IN VER

        HAPPY DAYS IN MARCIDO’S FIELD

PRODUCTIONS

        1999: OBLOMOV. QUANDO CI SI SVEGLIA SI E’ MORTI. Directed by Roberto Bacci

        2007: IGSMAIHIRSA (Anime Libere) written by Oreste Calleja, directed by Peter Busuttil (Malta)

        2008: AGAMEMNON. Directed by Antonis Diamantis (Creta)

    2009-2012: FRANKENSTEIN THE BEING Directed by Fabio Comana, Erbamil (Bergamo - Italy) for the "youth theatre" project in English

     2012: A FUEGO LENTO. Directed by Beppe Rosso