Giovanni Enrico Morassutti

Giovanni Morassutti (born March 15th 1980) is an Italian actor, theatre director and cultural entrepreneur. Son of a German mother and Italian father, he studied acting and directing since he was a teenager approaching the work of the realistic school first with Susan Strasberg in 1996, then as an auditor at the Actors Studio in New York City (1999), as a student of Salem Ludwig at the HB studio (2000) and then with John Strasberg with whom he has been working as an assistant and coordinator for his workshops in Italy and in Berlin, Germany. In 2016 he wrote the preface of the Italian version of his book Accidentally on purpose published by Dino Audino. While in the US, Giovanni worked with Ellen Stewart founder of La Mama e.t.c. (2003), Ted Mornel, Kathleen M. Wilce, and Gus Van Sant (Last Days 2005). In Italy, after graduating from the National Film School in Rome directed by actor Giancarlo Giannini in 2007, he was cast in several roles in theatre and film productions working with Fabio Jephcott, Roberto Faenza in The Viceroy (2007), Cinzia Th Torrini, Andrea Manni, Stefano Usardi, Matteo Corazza, Lidia Biondi, Harris Freedman, Riccardo Milani among others. In Theatre he directed Sola in casa by Dino Buzzati (2012) starring Lydia Biondi and presented at the Cherry Lane Theatre in New York and the theatre production of Madre sin Panuelo (2015) by Jorge Palant sponsored by the Argentian Embassy and presented in Rome and Milan. In Berlin, he was cast among other projects, in For the time being directed by Daniela Lucato (2018) that was presented at the 71st edition of the Cannes Film Festival and Winner of the Best International Short at DUAF Tribeca Film Center in NYC (2019).
Giovanni Morassutti is also a contributing artist of the Transversal Theater Company having performed both male leads in Railroad, winner of the Tor Vergata Award at the 28th Annual Festival Internazionale del Teatro Patologico directed by Dario D’Ambrosi in 2020 and he is part of the team of The Lonely Child, collaborating with filmmakers, producers and musicians . As a film actor has won the The Empty Space Film Festival award for Best Supporting Actor in Lola and he has competed for the David di Donatello award in 2021 for his role in Affittasi Vita directed by Stefano Usardi. As a film director, he is working on the post-production of his first documentary film Personal Dream Space. Giovanni Enrico Morassutti is also involved in Climate Change Theatre. In 2021 he directed the play When written by Wren Brian and staged on the banks of the Tagliamento River using only renewable energy and in 2023 he became the Italian spokesperson for Climate Change Theatre Action organizing an interdisciplinary event in Venice, Italy featuring various activities, including sustainable maritime mobility transport on electric boats, art exhibitions, music performances, and interventions combining digital art and science. The centerpiece of the event has been a theatrical performance of the play “Mirror Mirror,” involving activists from the nonviolent environmental movement Extinction Rebellion (XR) and WWF (World Wide Fund for Nature), directed by Morassutti and written by Camila Le-Bert, one of the playwrights commissioned to write for the fifth season of CCTA.