Maurizio Scaparro

Maurizio Scaparro (19 January 1932 – 17 February 2023) was an Italian stage and film director, playwright, journalist, and author.

Born in Rome, in the early 1950s Scaparro started working as a journalist and a theatre critic for the newspaper L'Avanti!

and later for the magazine Maschere, rassegna mensile di vita del teatro.

[1][2] He debuted as a stage director in 1964, with the play Festa grande di aprile, and got a first large critical acclaim in 1965 with his version of Carlo Goldoni's comedy La Venexiana, which he first represented at the Festival of Two Worlds in Spoleto.

[1][2] During his career Scaparro directed over sixty plays, and was artistic director of several theatres, as well as of the theatrical section at the Venice Biennale.