Casa del Contemporaneo is a centre for theatrical production and a non-profit organisation dedicated to the promotion of the performing and visual arts. It was established through the artistic synergy of Fondazione Salerno Contemporanea, Le Nuvole, and Compagnia Teatrale Enzo Moscato, with Teatri Uniti joining the partnership in 2022.
Its artistic vision is rooted in the idea of theatre as a shared experience, bringing together adults, teenagers, and children through productions that encourage dialogue across generations. This approach is reflected in its multidisciplinary programming and its strong commitment to contemporary artistic languages.
Casa del Contemporaneo carries out its activities mainly across four venues in Campania: Sala Assoli and Teatro dei Piccoli in Naples, Teatro Antonio Ghirelli in Salerno, and Teatro Karol in Castellammare di Stabia. Alongside theatre seasons and productions, it develops projects in collaboration with museums and cultural institutions, connecting performing arts, visual culture, education, and heritage.
Among its recent activities are the theatrical review “POMPEII. VOX FEMINAE. The Secret Words of Women”, the programme “Napoli. Storia Viva”, and cultural initiatives developed with important institutions across the Campania Region. Through this work, Casa del Contemporaneo promotes an idea of culture that is contemporary, accessible, and deeply connected to its territories and audiences.
Meet the team
Gabriella Galbiati
With a degree in Philosophy, her passion for the performing arts was sparked at a young age by her family’s influence. Over the past fifteen years, this passion has evolved into a career, as she now serves as a Press Officer and Communications Manager for several prominent organizations within the sector.
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Her professional journey includes a collaboration with Quarta Parete, an online theater journal based in Naples, where she wrote reviews, interviewed artists, and curated a weekly column on current stage productions. She has managed communications for numerous Neapolitan theater companies, as well as national festivals and showcases. Additionally, she has overseen communication strategies for various social and musical initiatives.
She currently manages communications for:
- Casa del Contemporaneo (Theater Production Center)
- Trianon Viviani – Theater of Neapolitan Song
- Ensemble Dissonanzen
Giovanni di Dio Petrone
Giovanni di Dio Petrone has worked in theatre for over forty years, building a career that moves fluidly between artistic practice, cultural leadership and institutional engagement. He began as an actor in 1985, working alongside some of the defining voices of the Neapolitan stage — Roberto De Simone, Michele Monetta and Francesco Silvestri. That early grounding in performance shaped everything that followed: a commitment to theatre not simply as an art form, but as a space for community, memory and transformation.
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In 1990 he joined Le Nuvole, one of Italy’s leading organisations for theatre and young audiences, where he has served as Artistic Director, President and, today, member of the Board of Directors. Over the decades, he has conceived and curated a wide range of projects for Le Nuvole — from H2O Città d’Acqua, a theatre and science initiative, to Festa dell’arte, a festival dedicated to the children of Campania, and La Stanza Blu, developed at the Teatro Mercadante in Naples. He currently serves as President of Casa del Contemporaneo, a theatre production centre recognised by the Italian Ministry of Culture, and as President of ARTEC, the regional association for the performing arts in Campania. In 2000, he was invited to lecture at the Teatro alla Scala Foundation in Milan, contributing to a professional training programme for organisers in the performing arts and cultural heritage sectors.
His work consistently reaches beyond the stage. Together with Maria D’Ambrosio of the Suor Orsola Benincasa University of Naples, he co-conceived Materia Viva, a project connecting art, design and industrial heritage to illuminate the material culture of local territories. For Casa del Contemporaneo, he curated Un angolo di Napoli, dalle pagine di Benedetto Croce — a multidisciplinary series developed with the Italian Institute for Historical Studies, exploring the history and architecture of Naples through Croce’s writings, with contributions from directors, actors and scholars.
Most recently, in September 2025, he produced Pompeii. Vox feminae. Le parole segrete delle donne — a series of artistic performances set across the sites of Greater Pompeii, dedicated to the women of the ancient city. The production, a collaboration between Casa del Contemporaneo and Le Nuvole, was staged as part of the Archaeological Park of Pompeii’s ESOPOP: Stories in Festival and promoted by the Ministry of Culture’s Directorate General for Living Performance.
Rosario Sparno
Actor, director, author of theatrical adaptations. Born in Naples on April 8, 197 He began his career as an actor in 1993, training with artists such as Francesco Silvestri, Barbara Valmorin, Renato Carpentieri, and Judith Malina of the Living Theater. He has worked with Teatro Stabile Torino, Piccolo Teatro di Milano, BAD Festival in Bilbao, Teatro Elicantropo/Vesuvio Teatro Napoli (UBU Award 2002), La Fionda Teatro Milano (Scenario Award finalist 2001), Teatro Nazionale Mercadante di Napoli, Teatro Libero di Palermo.
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He also worked with Festival della Magna Grecia in Taranto, Libera Scena Ensemble Napoli, Teatro Bellini Napoli, E.R.T. Modena, Taormina Arte Festival, and the Venice Theatre Biennale. He won the Stregagatto Award 2004 as Best Actor. He has also participated in Campania Teatro Festival and Asti Teatro. In cinema, he co-starred in “Il resto di niente” by A. de Lillo. For years, he has worked as a director with the company Casa del Contemporaneo in Naples. He adapts and stages both classical and contemporary international theatre works. In 2009, he created the project STANZA BLU (Eolo Award 2013 for Best Project) for the Teatro Stabile Mercadante of Naples. “The theatre I practice contains the qualities that I aim, together with my working group, to pursue in my theatrical activity: an act of faith in the power of stories and in their ability to strike the gut and narrate the world. A ‘popular’ theatre that is a continuous search, that speaks to contemporary humanity using the tools of irony, metaphor, and poetry.”
Lucia Simeone
Lucia Simeone is an administrative and financial manager with over thirty years of professional experience in the cultural, theatrical and performing arts sector. Over the course of her career, she has developed solid expertise in accounting, budgeting, fiscal and administrative procedures, financial monitoring, supplier and client management, and human resources administration.
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She has held administrative and organisational roles in several cultural and theatre organisations, supporting the management of income and payments, the preparation of annual and interim financial statements, the verification of budgetary deviations, and the fulfilment of fiscal and social security obligations. Her work has also included the coordination of administrative procedures, the definition of internal accounting guidelines, and the supervision of documentation required for transparent and compliant financial management. Lucia currently collaborates with Casa del Contemporaneo, where she is responsible for administrative coordination and financial management. In this role, she contributes to the planning and monitoring of cultural activities, with particular attention to budgets, deadlines, staff organisation, artists’ contracts and the administrative requirements connected to theatre productions and public events.
Her professional profile combines long-standing experience in financial administration with a strong understanding of the specific needs of cultural organisations. Within complex artistic and project-based contexts, she supports the smooth implementation of activities by ensuring organisational accuracy, budget control and administrative reliability.