ART Chiara Durazzini

Chiara Durazzini is a native of Florence, Italy, and is Pazzi Lazzi artistic director. After performing both in Italy and in the U.S., in 2013, with her long time actor friend Emanuele Capoano, she co-founded the troupe for which she performs, teaches and directs. She is also the aristic director -along with Eleonora Francesca Cordovani- of the affiliated Italian theatre company All’italiana – Boston Italian Theatre Company which involves Italian speakers in staging shows by Italian playwrights. With these two companies, Chiara has acted and directed original shows like “Aria di Commedia” (2014) and “Isabella Unmasked – The Legacy of an Italian Renaissance Woman” (2017) and “Pinocchio – A Commedia Adventure” (2020), and renowned plays like “Questi Fantasmi” (2018) by Eduardo De Filippo e “La Giara” (2019) by Luigi Pirandello. Some of her other American credits include Tinker Bell in “Pan” (Company One), Carmen in “The Balcony” (Boston Directors’ Lab) and the Virgin Mary in “Anger Box” (Apollinaire Theatre). She had also previously appeared in numerous Italian productions, including plays by Moliere, Goldoni and Pirandello. She has trained with the actors of Odin Teatret and studied extensively Commedia dell’Arte at the Scuola Sperimentale dell’Attore near Venice.

She obtained her Master’s degree in Art, Music and Theatre from the University of Bologna, Italy.