Beatrice Basso

Beatrice Basso (she/her) is a California-based performance maker from Italy, moving between directing, performing, and curating. Recent projects include “domestic strategies of subtraction” at The Front Gallery, directing plays by Anna Moench and Sylvan Oswald, translating and voicing Nichole Canuso Dance Company’s “The Garden” in Italian, performing in Cygnet Theatre’s production of “Life Sucks,” and cultural consulting on the Oscar-nominated Pixar film “Luca.” She has launched and dramaturged many play processes with writers including Julia Cho, Ursula Rani Sarma, and Christina Anderson. Her translations have been commissioned and performed at Oregon Shakespeare Festival and A.C.T. Bea served as A.C.T. ‘s Director of New Work and curated Práctica, a platform for multidisciplinary artists practicing south and north of the Tijuana/San Diego border. With Atosa Babaoff, Nora El Samahy and Emily Hoffman, she is founding member of the performance group Affinity Project. Bea is the Creative Director of San Diego’s Italian Cultural Center and teaches acting, dramaturgy, and translation at UCSD. https://beabasso.wixsite.com/mysite