Beatrice Basso

Beatrice Basso is an interdisciplinary artist and curator from Italy, now based in Southern California, moving between performing, directing, dramaturging, writing, and curating. 

 

Beatrice co-devises, performs, and directs an in-process series with actress Valentina Emeri on migration, loss, and dislocation, which had a residency at Z Space and has been presented at Diasporas Festival and Cutting Ball Theater in the Bay Area. She is ensemble member with Affinity Project, whose pieces have been produced by CounterPulse, furyFactory, and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, and one of them named one of "five wildest theatrical moments of 2015" with Wooster Group and Rude Mechs) by KQED/Theater Junkie.

 

She has launched and dramaturged many new play processes with writers including Julia Cho, Ursula Rani Sarma, and Christina Anderson, and directed Anna Moench’s Mothers at UCSD’s Wagner New Play Festival. She is currently dramaturging a new solo by Venezuelan dancer/choreographer Veronica Santiago Moniello. Bea’s translations/adaptations have been produced at Santa Cruz Shakespeare, American Conservatory Theater, and Oregon Shakespeare Festival.

 

Bea served as Long Wharf Theatre’s Literary Manager, A.C.T.’s Director of New Work, and curated Práctica, a platform for multidisciplinary artists practicing north and south of the Tijuana/San Diego border. She has lectured at Yale University School of Drama, A.C.T., and the University of Padua, Italy. Bea is a graduate in theater and classics from the University of Padua, Italy, and obtained her MA from Wesleyan University’s Institute for Curatorial Practice in Performance. She teaches in the Department of Theatre & Dance at UCSD and is Creative Director of the Italian Cultural Center of San Diego.