Luca Giacomoni is a director, author and teacher. After studying philosophy at the University of Bologna, he took part in Thinking Art: Rule and Anarchy, a masterclass held in Venice with philosopher Jean Baudrillard, semiotician Paolo Fabbri and artist Joseph Kosuth.

For five years, he studied under Gennadi Bogdanov, heir to Meyerhold’s biomechanics, culminating in the staging of Georges Dandin at the CRT in Milan. As an actor and dancer in Italy, he later joined the École Internationale de Théâtre Jacques Lecoq in Paris. He went on to deepen his training with César Brie, Léo Bassi, Joëlle Bouvier, Germana Giannini, Alberto Grilli and Richard Schechner. In 2009, he took part in a workshop led by Ariane Mnouchkine, before founding the research group Le théâtre en dehors du théâtre at the Théâtre du Soleil.

His artistic research is mainly influenced by the work of Jerzy Grotowski – particularly through encounters with Jairo Cuesta, Jim Slowiak and Eugenio Barba as part of the Università del Teatro Eurasiano – and by the legacy of Peter Brook, through a long-standing collaboration with Alain Maratrat and Yoshi Oïda, whom he assisted in the direction of Peter Grimes at the Lyon Opera.

From 2013 to 2023, he worked with the company Why Theatre, directing Iliade at the Meaux prison, Métamorphoses at the Maison des femmes in Saint-Denis, Hamlet with the Sainte-Anne Hospital – presented at Théâtre Silvia Monfort as part of the Festival d’Automne in Paris – and Woyzeck, performed by blind and visually impaired people, presented at the Goethe Institut as part of the 2024 Cultural Olympiad. He also works with the storytelling laboratory Why Stories, which he co-founded.

As an educator, Luca Giacomoni teaches at Sup de Sub, the Studio Muller, and within the framework of Chantiers Nomades. In 2020–2021, he was a guest professor and artist-in-residence at the Catholic University of Louvain in Belgium. In 2022–2023, he was part of the teaching team at the Institut Français de Formation Psychocorporelle – Gestalt IFFP. In 2024, he founded the Center for philosophical and theatrical research Hagia Sophia.