Bio

Alessia Luongo, born in Avellino and residing in Rome, is a performer and composer. She consolidated her theoretical and practical musical knowledge through an intensive and continuous program (2020–2025) in Complementary Music Disciplines with Maestro Francesco Leineri. She studied anthropological theater in Rome with director Vania Castelfranchi (2015–2018). Throughout her artistic career, she has developed a language that intertwines theater and music. She has performed at numerous festivals and events in Italy and abroad, including: XI Festival de Musica Antigua de Maó (Spain), Festival de Commedia dell’Arte de Nice (France), Festival Barocco Napoletano - Museo Archeologico di Napoli (Naples), Opera Nova Festival (Rome), Interpenetration (Graz, Austria), Era di Maggio - Museo Orto Botanico (Rome), season of Orchestra Barocca Siciliana (Syracuse), La Casa del Teatro (L’Aquila), Estate Romana (Rome), Museo in Piazza-Museo delle Civiltà (Rome), season of Musei d’Estate (Treviso),il Teatro Civico di Schio. In 2020, she won the award for Best Actress at the second edition of the Teatramm’ festival at Teatro Marconi (Rome). In the same year, she became the artistic director of the Teatrino dei Burattini del Gianicolo (Rome) and she organized several puppet theatre festivals at Teatro Mongiovino (Rome). Since 2019, she collaborates with Manuel Pernazza and she has conducted research activities with Maestro Roberto De Simone. In February 2023, she released her first solo album “Largo di Castello”, dedicated to the chitarra battente and colascione, which was featured in a special broadcast by Rai Internazionale on Rai 3. She stages the puppet theatre show “Pugni di Pezza”, featuring music she composed, and she currently working on her new album, Metafiction.

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