Biography

Irene Vecchia has  been student of the masters of the Neapolitan school of Guarattelle, working with puppets since 2000 and presents her shows in Naples, Italy and the world collaborating with Festivals, Theaters and Italian Institutes of culture abroad. 
She has worked in Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Ecuador, France, Germany, Guatemala, Lebanon, Mexico, Poland, Portugal, United Kingdom, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Hungary. 

She conducts workshops for theatre operators, professional puppeteers, and school children.
She designs and builds in wood her puppets, theatres and sets. 

In 2010 she obtained a bachelor’s degree in Visual Arts and Performing Arts at the course in Scenography at the Academy of Fine Arts in Naples. 

Graduated independently as a teacher, she founded in 2010 Swignin’Napoli association, and teaches swing-jazz dances, and sha has organized from 2015 to 2018 Song’ Swing, an indipendent festival of dances and swing music in Naples.

She is the author in 2012, with Gyula Molnàr, of Un caso Cromosomico, solo for actress of theater of objects.

In 2016 she collaborated with the Teatro Stabile of Naples Mercadante in the production Donna Lionora trilogy from \"Il Resto Di Niente\" as creator, producer and operator of shadows.

In 2019, she is the author, produces and directs \"La luna e Pulcinella\" puppet show with Pulcinella dealing with the theme of violence against women.

In 2021 he worked for Teatri Associati of Naples on the conception and staging of \"Natale in casa Cupiello\" by E. De Filippo, directed by Lello Serao, and Luca Saccoia, working on the training and coordination of the young operators of the company for the figurative part with puppets by Tiziano Fario.

Since April 2019 he manages and organizes with Bruno Leone the activities of Casa Guarattelle, a stable space in the center of Naples, dedicated to the Guarattelle and its evolution in contemporary puppet theater.

 

Prizes & Recognitions:

-1° place for new productions at Cantiere2012, at Incanti- Rassegna Internazionale di Teatro di Figura, Grimmland. Märchenhaft. Da favola! with Goethe-Institut- Torino

-Honorary member of Punch and Judy Fellowship since 2013

-Prize Benedetto Ravasio XVIII° edition 2015 – Bergamo

Festivals

MARIONETAS NA CIDADE XX - 2017, Alcobaça (P)

FESTIVAL DECOUVERTES IMAGES ET MARIONNETTES 2017, Tournai (B)

FESTIVAL MONDIAL DES THEATRES DE MARIONNETTES 2017, Charleville-Mèzieres (F)

IL CASTELLO INCANTATO 2017, Locarno (CH)

INFANZIA E CITTÀ IV, Teatri di Pistoia (I)

BORGHI E BURATTINI 2016, Bergamo (I)

LALKA NA SCENIE 2016, Warsaw (PL)
in produzione con il TEATRO STABILE DELLA CITTÀ DI NAPOLI Gen/Feb 2016 (I)

IMPERTINENTE FESTIVAL FIGURE ANIMATE 2015, Parma (I)

INCANTI FESTIVAL 2015, Torino (I)

XVIII PREMIO NAZIONALE BENEDETTO RAVASIO 13.09.2015, Bergamo (I)

GIFFONI FILM FESTIVAL 2015, Giffoni (I)

POSITANO TEATRO FESTIVAL - XII EDIZIONE 2015, Positano (I)

INTERNATIONALES FIGURENTHEATERFESTIVAL BLICKFANG 2015 , Altmorschen (D)

INTERNATIONALE PUPPEN THEATER TAGE FESTIVAL 2014,  Mistelbach (A)

ENCONTRO INTERNACIONAL DE MARIONETAS DE LUVA 2014, Montemor-o-Novo (P)

FIGURENTHEATERFESTIVAL 2014, Wels (A)

ARRIVANO DAL MARE! 2013 Gambettola (I)

MoMoTI FESTIVAL 2013 Cagliari (I)

SKIPTON PUPPET FESTIVAL 2013 Skipton (UK)

ANDERLE RADVAN 2013 Banska Bystrica (SK)

PUF LUTKARNICA FESTIVAL 2013 Istria (SLO)

LUTKOVNO GLEDALIŠČE 2013 Ljubljana(SLO)

BURATTINARTE 2013 (I)

1° PREMIO : CANTIERE _ FESTIVAL INCANTI 2012, Torino (I)

THE BIG GRIN 2012  Mr. Punch’s 350birthday London/Lincoln/Glasgow (UK)

HISTERIA 2012 Istria (SLO)

BLICKWECHSEL 2011, Magdeburg (D)
IMMAGINI DALL’INTERNO 2011 Pinerolo (I)

PARQUE DE LAS MARIONETTAS 2010, Zaragoza (E)
EL RAI barcellona 2010, Barcellona (E)

UNDP ART GOLD LEBANON PROGRAM 2009  Beirut Southern Suburbs (LEB)

TITIRIMUNDI 2009  Castilla y Leon (E)

BIME 2009  Evora (P)

ANDERLE RADVAN 2009  Banska Bystrica (SK)

IMMAGINI DALL’INTERNO 2008, 2011 Pinerolo (I)

ARLECCHINO DOMANI 2008 Paolo Grassi, Milano (I)

PUNTA CORSARA 2008 Napoli (I)

EMOZIONI 2008, 2007 Napoli (I) 

PUPPET-A-PLENTY 2007, Birmingham (UK)

B.A.B. FESTIVAL 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, Benevento (I)

MERCANTIA 2007, 2004, 2003, 2002 Certaldo (I)

SZIGET FESTIVAL 2003, Budapest (H)

LA MACCHINA DEI SOGNI 2003, Palermo (I)

LA SCUOLA DI PULCINELLA 2003, 2002, 2001 Napoli e Benevento (I)

PUF 2002 Koper + FESTIVAL LUTKE 2002 Ljubljana (SLO)