Piersandra Di Matteo

performing arts scholar, dramaturg, and curator. She is a member of PerLA | Performance Epistemologies Research Lab at Università Iuav di Venezia, where she held teaching appointments for several years. In 2026, she is an Associate Research Scholar at the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies at Columbia University in New York; in 2017, a Visiting Scholar at the CUNY Graduate Center. Since 2008, she has been a close theoretical collaborator of Romeo Castellucci, working as a dramaturg on his theatre and opera productions at major international institutions. She has lectured and led seminars at universities and research centres worldwide, including Harvard University, University of Pennsylvania, School of Creative Media in Hong Kong, Shanghai Theatre Academy, LASALLE College of the Arts in Singapore, DAS Theatre and SNDO in Amsterdam, UQAM in Montréal, and MITsp in São Paulo. She was Artistic Director of Short Theatre (2021–2024) and Atlas of Transitions Biennale (2017–2020). Since 2024, she has curated residency projects for the Académie du Festival d’Aix-en-Provence. She is currently Curator-at-Large for FAULT. Field for Artistic Unmastery and Living Transmission at LAC Lugano Arte e Cultura.