Directing Portfolio

For twenty years, Kiara Pipino served as Producer, Artistic Director, Artistic Supervisor, and Resident Director of the Festival Internazionale Valle Christi, a showcase for new plays, classical works, musical events, and international artists, staged among the archaeological remains of the Medieval monastery of Valle Christi. The festival gained national recognition over its run, receiving the Premio La Stampa and Premio Liguria critics' awards on multiple occasions, and supported workshops and internships for American students on study-abroad programs. The festival continues today under different leadership, with a stronger focus on music.

She personally supervised and directed a number of the festival's new and classical play productions, including:

• Alatiel, la figlia del Sultano di Babilonia, by Giovanni Boccaccio
• La Tempesta (The Tempest), by William Shakespeare
• I Think You Think I Love You, by Kelly Younger
• The Unseen, by Craig Wright (Italian premiere)
• La XII Notte (Twelfth Night), by William Shakespeare
• Minotaurus, by Friedrich Dürrenmatt
• Olympo Cabaret, by Kiara Pipino
• Ludus Danielis, a medieval play
• The Spoon River Anthology, by Edgar Lee Masters
• A Number, by Caryl Churchill
• The Invisible Cities, by Italo Calvino
• The Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, by T.S. Eliot

Also at the Festival: Happy Birthday, Shakespeare!, 2014.

Below is a selection of the shows and artists the festival hosted:

• Mistero Buffo, by Dario Fo
• Reading Dante, with Giorgio Albertazzi
• Fedra, with Elisabetta Pozzi
• Carta Diva, by Ennio Marchetto
• Stanca di Guerra, with Lella Costa
• Edith Piaf, with Catherine Spaak
• Il Re degli Interstizi, with Alessandro Preziosi
• Magnificat, with Valentina Cortese
• Sulla Strada Ancora, with Paolo Rossi