TOMASELLO Dario

Dario Tomasello is Full Professor of Performance Studies at the University of
Messina, where he founded and coordinates the DAMS and the International Center for Performance Studies on the Performativity of the Arts and Social Imaginaries (UNIVERSITEATRALI).
He translated and edited Richard Schechner's handbook, Introduction to Performance
Studies (CUE Press, 2018).
He directs for Editoria & Spettacolo the FARETESTO series, dedicated to a repertoire
of texts from contemporary Italian dramaturgy.
He has founded and directed, since 2011, "Mantichora. Italian Journal of Performance Studies,"
peer reviewed journal of band A.
From 2007 to 2013, he was scientific advisor for prose at the Ente Autonomo
Regionale Teatro Vittorio Emanuele in Messina, for which he directed, for six years,
the season “Paradox on the Author” dedicated to new Italian dramaturgy.
He was Visiting Professor at Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris III and has lectured at
many Italian and international universities and institutions (including: Nanterre - Paris X;
Columbia University; State University of New York; New York University;
Italian Cultural Institute in Chicago; Katholieke Universiteit Leuven; Gent University).