CAST BIOS

Miguel Gobbo Diaz was born in Santo Domingo, arrived in Italy at the age of three and studied at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia. He worked in theater playing The Pass by John Donnelly and acted in some short films and films, obtaining a leading role in La grande rabbia in 2016. Since 2018 he has been among the main characters in the Rai 1 TV series Nero a metà, alongside Claudio Amendola. In 2021 he plays Rico in the Netflix series Zero. He returns to the theater with Arlecchino! by Marco Baliani, performed over 120 times in Italy.

Federico Lima Roque is the first Black Italian actor who attended a national theatre school in 2009, the Silvio D’Amico in Rome and the first who attended a main role on a TV show, Rex in 2013. He worked in a dozen of film and TV productions and in over 20 theatre productions with the main Italian National Theaters: Rome, Naples, Genova, Palermo. He has a nomination at the Scenario Prize with Katzelmacher in 2013. The monologue Lampedusa Beach by Lina Prosa received several international awards and has been performed by Federico over 150 times all over Italy and Europe. He is currently on a Italian tour with a theatre adaptation of Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner?, produced by Teatro Quirino, playing what was Sidney Poitier’s role.

Marcos Piacentini attended the Binario 7 acting school, the Centro Teatro Attivo acting school and the Accademia dei Filodrammatici in Milan. He acted in several film and television productions, such as 3/21 by Silvio Soldini, the three seasons of the TV show Imma Tataranni – Sostituto procuratore and Brennero. In theater he worked with Walter Malosti in Cleopatras, at the Opera Lirica in Florence becoming finalist for the Hystrio Vocal Award.

Rosanna Sparapano graduated in 2005 at the Piccolo Teatro School in Milan, working with Luca Ronconi in plays such as the Greek trilogy: Prometheus Bound, The Bacchae, The Frog and such as Infinities and The Soldiers. She was nominated for the Hystrio award in 2005, as the first Afro-descendant actress. In cinema she acted for Luca Lucini in The woman of my life and in Anche se è amore non si vede by Ficarra and Picone. In Rwanda by Riccardo Salvetti she plays the leading role, the film premiered at the Giornate degli Autori at the 75th Venice Film Festival, and won many international awards.

Tomiwa Samson Segun Aina is born in Lagos, Nigeria, and raised in Parma, Italy. He trained as an actor in Rome, at the Silvio d’Amico National Academy of Dramatic Arts. Among the various theatre company directors he has worked with Motus, Claudio Tolcachir, Leonardo Lidi, Giovanni Ortoleva, and Chiara Malta.

CREATIVE BIOS

Renzo Carbonera is an Italian and German citizen and native speaker. He has written and directed about twenty documentaries for cinema and television, all distributed in theaters or broadcast internationally on the main Italian and European networks. His short film La Penna di Hemingway premiered at the Giornate degli Autori at the Venice Film Festival. His first feature film, Resina, was presented at over thirty international festivals, including 3 in FIAPF Category A (Montreal, Tunis/JCC, Mannheim/ Heidelberg). It has been distributed in about twenty countries around the world including the USA, China, Korea, UK, France, Germany. It is one of the most popular Italian movies in 2018, getting sixth in the annual ranking and collecting a nomination for the Golden Globes and the Golden Ciaks 2019. His second film, Takeaway was released in Italian theaters with Fandango and Rai Cinema in 2022. It premiered at the Rome Film Festival and got nominated for the Golden Globes 2022. Renzo has been nominated four times and won one Italian Video Game Award as the writer of the game The Rude Awakening. For Jitney he collaborated with Italian theatre greats Fabrizio Arcuri as dramaturg and Tindaro Granata as actor coach.