Vanni Carpenedo

He graduated in 1991 from the “Giovanni Poli” School of Theater in l’Avogaria. Between 1996 and 2000 he participated in the productions of Compagnia L’Isola Teatro: Le donne de casa soa and La casa nova by Carlo Goldoni (directed by Virgilio Zernitz); La voce di chi resta and Due in uno (directed by Alberta Toninato); In viaggio verso Sarajevo (a project curated by Serena Sinigaglia, a Compagnia L’Isola Teatro production in collaboration with the Municipality of Venice, Moby Dick and the Venice Biennale).
Between 2004 and 2007 he worked in: Il tempo dei giganti, by Luigi Pirandello, directed by Claudio Di Scanno (Drammateatro production). Il Campiello, by Carlo Goldoni, directed by Giuseppe Emiliani (Teatro Fondamenta Nuove production), Story of Nin, written and directed by Alberta Toninato (Kairós production).
He plays the monologue Hamlet, son, from Shakespeare, directed by Sabine Uiz (Kairós and Centro Teatrale Via Rosse production); plays the role of Harlequin in The Servant on Trial, by Carlo Goldoni, directed by Alberta Toninato (Kairós production, City of Venice and Teatro Fondamenta Nuove). Since 2006 he has been working at Kairós as a theater teacher.
In 2010 he plays with Linda Bobbo Anyway it is…you must have eyes – History of Galileo industrie ottiche, by Antonella Saccarola, directed by Patricia Zanco and Daniela Mattiuzzi (production Josephine Cre(A)zioni). In the same year he works in Tempeste, from Shakespeare, directed by Alberta Toninato (production Kairós, City of Venice, with the collaboration of Teatro Fondamenta Nuove and Opera Estate Festival di Bassano). He has presented his shows inside condominium courtyards, gardens and houses, in collaboration with the Department of Culture and the Department of Social Policies of the Municipality of Preganziol, to spread theater in alternative contexts. He is involved in projects aimed at cultural and sustainable tourism through the dissemination of Commedia dell’Arte techniques. He is the protagonist of the show in Italian and English Arlecchino si fa in tre/Arlecchino torn in three, from Il servitore di due padroni by Carlo Goldoni, and participates in the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in August 2019. There he holds workshops and participates as Harlequin in lectures on Commedia dell’Arte at the Edinburgh Institute of Culture. Harlequin & Felicity – based on Romeo and Juliet – is his new play in Italian and English.