Matteo Caniglia

Matteo Caniglia was born in Florence in 1992. He graduated in playwriting at the Paolo Grassi Academy in Milan. His play Paesaggio estivo con allocco che ascolta has been awarded with the Premio Hystrio – Scritture di Scena 2022 and has obtained the special mention of PAV/Fabulamundi Playwriting Europe: “Beyond Borders?”. He is also the author of Laika Spasse – Redemtping Laika (Teatro dell’Elfo, Milan, 2014), Materiali per un ruota panoramica (Teatro Franco Parenti, Milan, 2017), No Border Machine for the European project “Metropolis – Promised Lands” (Milan, 2017; Banská Bystrica, 2018) and Perché voi valete, for which he was selected by Letizia Russo and Linda Dalisi for the Under 40 Contest at La Biennale di Venezia (2018). He works in advertising and gaming, collaborating with developers from the Barcelona indie scene. He wrote for NintendOn and Game Global, among others, and in 2020 he started his own website Scenarios – Narrative Design in Videogames. His teachers include Renata Molinari, with whom he did various writing practices at the Bottega dello Sguardo, and Rafael Spregelburd.