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He works as an Italian stage actor, theatre director, dramaturge and author. His repertory includes civil theatre, and his performances usually consist of monologues with frequent use of the Venetian language, irony and satire. He is an Italian exponent of narrative theatre, inspired by Dario Fo.

In the 1970s he moved to Treviso and started working in theatre. Until 1994 he worked with various theatre groups, among them Teatro degli Stracci, Studio 900 of Treviso, Tag Teatro of Mestre in Venice and Laboratorio Teatro Settimo. In 1995 he received the Ubu Prize for writing Il racconto del Vajont, dedicated to the disaster of the Vajont Dam in Italy.

Since 1999 he has produced his own works with his company JoleFilm. He has also collaborated with the Italian folk band I Mercanti di Liquore and with its lead singer, Lorenzo Monguzzi. His theatre works include Il racconto del Vajont (1994), Appunti forestali (1996), Il milione – Quaderno veneziano di Marco Paolini (1997), I-TIGI Canto per Ustica (2000), Parlamento chimico – Storie di plastica (2001), Karma-Kola (2006), Miserabili – Io e Margaret Thatcher (2007), Il Sergente (2007), Ausmerzen (2012) and Itis Galileo (2012).