The first public repertory theatre in Italy, the Piccolo Teatro di Milano was founded on 14 May 1947 by Giorgio Strehler and Paolo Grassi, together with Nina Vinchi, with the aim of creating a Theatre that provides a public service; an essential artistic and cultural institution responding to a collective need and thus working to the benefit of the entire community.
 

“An Art Theatre for All” is the motto and underlying principle that has accompanied the Piccolo ever since it was founded, and that continues to express its mission: staging quality shows aimed at the most wide-ranging of audiences possible.
 

With support from the State and local administration – first and foremost the Municipality of Milan and the Lombardy Region – the Piccolo currently runs three auditoriums: the original location in Via Rovello, renamed the Teatro Grassi, is situated in Palazzo Carmagnola and, since 2009, also includes the magnificent Renaissance Cloister named in honour of Nina Vinchi, which was brought to light and reopened to the city through a restoration project; the Teatro Strehler, the main venue, designed by Marco Zanuso and inaugurated in January 1998 to the music of Così fan tutte by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, the last production to be directed by the great director after whom it is named; the Teatro Studio Melato, an experimental theatrical space dedicated to research and education and named in honour of the actress Mariangela Melato since 2014. Its home is the site of the nineteenth-century Teatro Fossati, which was reopened to the public in 1986. The building also houses the “Luca Ronconi” Theatre Academy, founded by Giorgio Strehler in 1987. Over the years, the Piccolo has also developed a sets workshop and a costume department to support operations. 

Over seventy-seven years of activity, the Piccolo Teatro has produced more than 400 shows – many of which were directed by Giorgio Strehler –, offering major productions of both classic and contemporary writers that have over time become part of international theatrical history. With regard to Strehler’s works alone, these productions include: William Shakespeare (King Lear and The Tempest), Carlo Goldoni (Harlequin, servant to two masters, Brawling in Chioggia, The little square), Anton Chekhov (The Cherry Orchard), Bertolt Brecht (Threepenny Opera, Life of Galileo, The Good Person of Szechwan) and Samuel Beckett (Happy days).

Since 1991, the Piccolo Teatro has also been a “Theatre of Europe”, a status confirmed by article 47 of Italian Ministerial Decree 322 dated 27 July 2017, as amended. Strehler was the first to strongly promote a vision of openness and to seek a position in the international theatrical panorama, and this philosophy was carried forward under the directorship of Sergio Escobar – who headed the Foundation from 1998 to July 2020 – and of Luca Ronconi (artistic consultant and director of the Theatre Academy until February 2015).

During his time in Milan, Ronconi wrote a number of extraordinary theatrical masterpieces during the dawn of the new millennium, which – among their many merits – celebrated the interdisciplinary nature of theatrical expression. This was the case with Infinities by the English mathematician John D. Barrow, a literal theatrical experiment staged in the ex-workshops of La Scala in the Bovisa district for the 2001/02 season, or with Lehman Trilogy (2015), an epic ballad that explored the downfall of Western capitalism and was the last production to be directed by the maestro, based on the piece by Stefano Massini – who soon after was called on to take over as artistic consultant from 2015 to 2020.

It is thanks to these figures, and to the commitment of all the artists, workers and craftspeople who have played a role in its history that the Piccolo is now an urban and European centre for culture, with its stages playing host to theatre and dance, reviews and festivals, round tables and cultural events.

Since December 2020, Claudio Longhi has served as the Director of the Piccolo. Under his guidance, in addition to the traditional rich programme of in-house and guest productions, the cultural policy of the Theatre has focused on supporting contemporary playwriting, promoting young artists, internationalisation and the development of European networks and programming. In particular, as of the 2021/22 season, the Piccolo has become – in line with the desires of its founders – a veritable “home” to artists. The theatre now collaborates with fifteen Associate Artists from Italy and abroad, with the conviction that the theatre’s activities are not confined to the production of shows, but must also serve to favour processes of exchange, creation and cooperation, allowing spectators to connect not only with the performance themselves but also with the related processes. 

On the occasion of the celebrations for the one hundredth anniversary of the birth of Giorgio Strehler, the 2021/22 season also saw the launch of the Festival Presente Indicativo, a grand expression of international theatre that, for the May 2022 edition – per Giorgio Strehler (paesaggi teatrali) – saw the participation of 21 theatrical companies and ensembles involved in 25 shows performed in the Piccolo’s auditoriums and throughout the city, offering a total of more than 70 hours of theatre. May 2024 saw the presentation of the second edition of the Festival: Milano Porta Europa, a kaleidoscopic exploration of the multitude faces of contemporary Europe, of its contradictions, its hopes and its opportunities. 

Last, but not least, through its various activities, the Theatre dedicates significant attention to dialogue with the community and to the theme of sustainability in the broadest and most inclusive sense of the term, examining relations between the environment, the economy and society. 

In December 2024, reflecting the original diarchic nature of the leadership of the Piccolo Teatro, the governance of the Foundation assumed a new structure. The Board of Directors of the organisation unanimously voted to renew the mandate assigned to the Director Claudio Longhi who, as part of his role as artistic director of the theatre, has also taken on the management of the “Luca Ronconi” Theatre Academy, and also appointed Lanfranco Li Cauli as Delegated General Director, responsible for technical and administrative operations. 

To underscore the educational vocation of its Masters, the Piccolo Teatro has also launched a specialised master’s course for actors, overseen by Andrea Chiodi. This marks a return to tradition in shaping the future and, fully embracing the spirit of serving the Institution and the community, continuing to ensure that the Piccolo Teatro upholds its international standing.

 

On 1 December 2020, he became the Director of the Piccolo Teatro di Milano– Teatro d’Europa.

Born in Bologna on 25 May 1966, he graduated with full marks at the Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna in 1993 under the guidance of Professor Ezio Raimondi, with a degree thesis entitled  From epic to Theatre, Ronconi’s “Orlando Furioso”. In 1998, again at Bologna University, he gained his PhD with the thesis Twentieth-century dramaturgy: novel, cinema and editing, and won a post-doctoral scholarship in 1999 for a critical publishing project on the four comedies of Giovan Battista Andreini. In 2002 he won a position as Researcher in Entertainment Disciplines at the Department of Music and Entertainment, University of Bologna. In 2006, he was promoted to Associated Professor, moving to the Department of Design and Arts at the IUAV University of Venice. In December 2011, he returned to Bologna, and since 2015 has held the role of full professor (currently on leave) for History of Direction and Theory of Direction for the Department of Visual, Performing and Media Arts for the city’s University. Over the years he has also taught Playwriting, History of Playwriting and the Stage, and Planning and Management of Entertainment Activities. In 2014, he was elected Coordinator for the master’s course in Musical and Theatrical Disciplines at the University of Bologna. In 2015 he was appointed Deputy Vice-President of the School of Literature and Cultural Heritage at the same University. In February 2016, he was elected as Coordinator of the PhD in Visual, Performing and Media Arts at the University of Bologna. In March 2016, he became a member of the watchdog group “University Quality - Working Group dedicated to functions related to quality of research”, again at the University of Bologna, representing the macro-area of Humanities. He held the role of vice-president of CUT (University Theatrical Consultant) from 2016 to 2018.

His academic career has run parallel with his activity in the world of theatre, operating initially in the field of directing and audience education, to then widen his scope to organisational areas. Between 1993 and 1995 he worked as assistant to Pier Luigi Pizzi and Graham Vick, between 1995 and 2002 he collaborated on a regular basis with Luca Ronconi , first as his assistant and then as assistant director, taking part in productions such as Quer pasticciaccio brutto de via Merulana, 1996; Lolita, 2001 and Infinities, 2002. Between 2007 and 2008, he worked alongside Eimuntas Nekrošius for the staging of Anna Karenina. Beginning in 1999, he directed productions for the Teatro di Roma (Democrazia, 1999; Omaggio a Koltès: Deaf voices, Sallinger and In the Solitude of Cotton Fields, 2009), for the Teatro de Gli Incamminati (Moscheta, 2001; Cos’è l’amore, 2002; Caligola, 2003; Edipo e la Sfinge, 2004; Der Onkel, 2005), for the Piccolo Teatro di Milano (Ite messa est, 2002), for the Teatro Stabile di Torino (La peste, a co-production with the Teatro de Gli Incamminati, 2004; Leopardi, 2005; Biblioetica. Dizionario per l’uso, together with Luca Ronconi as part of “Progetto Domani”, 2006), for the Teatro Due di Parma (La folle giornata o il matrimonio di Figaro, a co-production with the Teatro Stabile di Torino and the Teatro di Roma, 2007), for the Istituto Nazionale del Dramma Antico (Prometeo, 2012) and for the Emilia Romagna Teatro Fondazione (Io parlo ai perduti. Le vite immaginarie di Antonio Delfini, 2009; La resistibile ascesa di Arturo Ui, 2011, a co-production with the Teatro di Roma, winner of the ANCT Award as play of the year; Il ratto d’Europa, a co-production with the Teatro di Roma, 2013; the trilogy Istruzioni per non morire in pace: Patrimoni, Rivoluzioni, Teatro, a co-production with the Teatro della Toscana, 2016; La classe operaia va in paradiso, 2018; La commedia della vanità, a co-production with the Teatro di Roma, Teatro della Toscana and LAC, 2019; Il peso del mondo nelle cose, based in the work by Alejandro Tantanian, 2020). He has been a long-term collaborator with Edoardo Sanguinetti, directing - among others - the first full staging in Italy of Storie Naturali (Bologna, 2005).

From 1 January 2017 to 30 November 2020, he held the role of artistic director at the Emilia Romagna Teatro Fondazione.

He has created and curated audience education projects for the Teatro di Roma (1994.1999), for the Teatro Due di Parma (2006-2009) and for ERT (2015-2016). He has collaborated on audience education projects for the Piccolo Teatro di Milano (2000-2002). Since February 2011, he has formed part of the international research group connected to the Prospero Project for Theatrical Cooperation, as representative for the ERT Foundation. Funded by the European Union Culture Commission, the project connects the Théâtre Nationale de Bretagne in Rennes (France), il Théâtre de la Place in Liège (Belgium), Emilia Romagna Teatro Fondazione di Modena (Italy), la Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz in Berlin (Germany), la Fundação Centro Cultural de Belém in Lisbon (Portugal) and the Tutkivan Teatterityön Keskus in Tampere (Finland), with the aim of favouring mobility of artists and their creations, as well as encounters and profitable exchange between a range of theatrical traditions.

Since 2008, he has been creating, organising and managing participatory theatrical projects: Shakespeare è un pezzo di carbone? (ERT Fondazione: 2008-2010); Omaggio a Koltès (Teatro di Roma, 2009); La resistibile ascesa di Arturo Ui (ERT Fondazione, 2011); Il ratto d’Europa: per un’archeologia dei saperi comunitari (ERT Fondazione – Teatro di Roma, Modena 2011-2014, Rome 2012-2014, UBU 2013 Special Award); Beni comuni. Un teatro partecipato per una cultura condivisa (ERT Fondazione-ATER-Municipality of Carpi, funded by the Ministry for Cultural Heritage and Acitivites, 2014); Carissimi Padri: almanacchi dalla Grande Pace (1900-1915) (ERT Fondazione – Teatro della Toscana, Modena 2015-2016, Florence 2016-2017).

Longhi’s work in the field of theatre has also extended to actor training. From 2005 to 2015, he taught History of Theatre at the Piccolo Teatro di Milano School; in 2004 he participated as a teacher at the “Finishing School for directors and actors” directed by Luca Ronconi at the Centro Teatrale di Santa Cristina; between 2013 and 2014, he was the didactic director and coordinator for the artistic higher education course Raccontare il territorio organised by the ERT Foundation and CUBEC - Accademia di Belcanto, in collaboration with the Accademia Filharmonica of Bologna. From June 2015 to November 2020, he was the director of the “Iolanda Gazzerro School of Theatre - Permanent Actors’ Workshop”, organised by the ERT Foundation. In October 2016, on behalf of the ERT Foundation, he organised and managed the international theatrical pedagogics project: At the Prospero’s School. Actors in the global net.

He has published more than one hundred works on the history of direction, the history of the actor, the evolution of contemporary dramaturgy and the Italian theatrical system. These include: the papers La drammaturgia del Novecento: tra romanzo e montaggio (1999), L’”Orlando furioso” di Ariosto-Sanguineti per Luca Ronconi (2006, Special Mention – Zevio Ferrigno Award – as part of the Pisa National Literary Award), Marisa Fabbri: lungo viaggio attraverso il teatro di regia (2010); his contributions to conferences such as La naissance de la mise en scène et l’“opéra”: le marché, la direction d’orchestre et la dramaturgie musicale (1831-1848) (2009), Un “oppositore” al potere: Luigi Squarzina direttore di teatri stabili (2013),or his essays published in some of the most prestigious Italian and International magazines such as: “Culture Teatrali” (La tentazione del “Portrait”, ovvero la scena della memoria secondo Lagarce, 2013; “L’unico responsabile sono io”? Appunti di regia, ricordando Luca Ronconi (Quasi un’introduzione), 2016; Natura facit saltus. Della Pandemia e dell’Europa, tra passato e futuro, 2020; he also curated the 25th annual of the magazine, entitled La regia in Italia, oggi: per Luca Ronconi, 2016), “Teatro e Storia” (Lettera da Avignone per “Papperlapapp”, 2010), “Acting Archives” (Il romanzo dell’École des Maîtres: elementi di pedagogia teatrale secondo Franco Quadri, à la manière de Jarry, 2014), “Drammaturgia” (Sul “Prometeo incatenato”. Tragedia dello sguardo e anatomie del tempo: considerazioni di regia, 2014) or “Europe” (Pour une critique postmoderne à la notion de postmodernité: sur le théâtre de Jean-Luc Lagarce, 2010).

Since June 2010 he has served as a member of the Scientific Committee for the magazine “Teatro e Antropologia”, and between 2011 and 2014 he was a member of the Editorial Committee for the magazine “Prospero European Review. Theatre and Research”. Since July 2012 he has been a member of the Scientific Committee for the new series of the magazine “Drammaturgia” and, since 2015, head of the editorial team for the magazine “Cutlure Teatrali. Studi, interventi e scritture sullo spettacolo”. In 2017 he served on the jury for the “Riccione Theatre Award”, with F. Paravidino as chairperson. Since 2018 he has been an ordinary member of EASTAP, the European Association for the Study of Theatre and Performance, and since 2020 a member of the Scientific Committee for the Gramsci Foundation Emilia-Romagna.

He is frequently involved in international conventions (“Comédiens-auteurs, comédiens-poètes; Angleterre, Espagne, Italie, France, 16^e-17^e siècles”, Paris, 2012; “Le théâtre et ses publics: la création partagée / Theatre and audiences: a shared creation”, Liège, 2012; “Luca Ronconi: maître d’un théâtre sans limites”, Paris, 2016; “Décentrer notre vision de lʼEuropeˮ, EASTAP, Paris, 2018; “Shared memory(ies)ˮ, EASTAP, Lisbon, 2019). Together with Daniele Vianello, he curated the 3rd international EASTAP convention “Creating for the stage and other spaces: Questioning Practices and Theories”, which was due to take place in Bologna from 27 February to 1 March 2020, but which was cancelled due to the COVID-19 emergency.

Together with Gerardo Guccini and Rossella Mazzaglia, he is the curator of In prospettiva. Dialoghi sul teatro, a series of online events that provide a platform for artists, scholars and operators from the world of live entertainment to examine the role of the performing arts in the era of the coronavirus and the post-pandemic phase (June-December 2020).

Governing Bodies

Founding Members 
Comune di Milano
Regione Lombardia

Supporting Member 
Camera di Commercio di Milano Monza Brianza Lodi  

Board of Governors 
Giuseppe Sala 
Mayor of Milan 

Attilio Fontana 
President of Regione Lombardia 

Carlo Sangalli 
President of Camera di Commercio di Milano Monza Brianza Lodi  

Board of Directors 
President 
Piergaetano Marchetti 

Board Members 
Giulia Amato 
Enrico Brambilla 
Emanuela Carcano 
Massimiliano Finazzer Flory 
Antonino Geronimo La Russa 

Board of Statutory Auditors 
President
Luca Marchioro  

Auditors 
Alessandro Cafarelli 
Martino Bruno Gola 

Chief Executive Officer 
Lanfranco Li Cauli

Artistic Director 
Claudio Longhi 

 

The “Luca Ronconi” School of Theatre of the Piccolo Teatro di Milano – Teatro d’Europa Foundation is a world-famous school for higher-education and specialisation for actors. It is unique in the Lombardy Region in that it is linked to an international and inter-disciplinary theatre, characteristics that render the institution a cultural reference point on a city-wide, regional and European level.

The Directorate of the Foundation has adopted a quality management system that complies with the UNI EN ISO 9001:2015 regulation for activities regarding the planning and provision of services for the training of professional actors in the fields of theatre, cinema and television. The guidelines of the school are:

• to offer the pupils the best possible service of an interdisciplinary nature, a constant exchange between the classroom and the stage, and attention to the demands of the market;
• to respect the commitments it assumes, the mandatory requirements and those of the students and interested parties;
• to act in compliance with the principles of the cited regulation, maintaining the quality management system operational and continuously improving efficiency;
• to involve prestigious national and international professional figures in the training activities, figures capable of staying abreast of new trends and facilitating the development of the students’ talent;
• to apply to all its activities the principle of preventative identification and management of factors regarding risk and opportunity.

Through the quality management system, the Directorate intends to guarantee its interlocutors that everything that occurs is planned and evaluated. Furthermore, the following goals are set:

1. Pursue the full satisfaction of the students;
2. Satisfy the requirements and expectations of all the identified interested parties;
3. Maintain regional certification as an organisation providing training services in Lombardy;
4. Help its students to enter the world of employment;
5. Continue to represent a centre of attraction for all those who wish to serious take on the acting profession.

All the people operating in the School must consider themselves as committed to acting in compliance with the rules described in the documentation for the quality management system. The content of this document is communicated to all levels of the organisation. It is also available to whoever requests it and is published on the website. The Directorate confirms that the role of Quality System Manager has been assigned to Ms. Roberta Zanoli.

The Foundation Director: Sergio Escobar (until 31 July 2020) - Claudio Longhi (from 1 December 2020)
The Quality System Manager: Roberta Zanoli

The Luca Ronconi School of Theatre

Founded in 1987 by Giorgio Strehler and directed by Luca Ronconi until his death, the School of Theatre carries out its activities in symbiosis with the Piccolo Teatro di Milano - Teatro d’Europa, the first example of a repertory theatre in Italy, founded in 1947 by Paolo Grassi and Giorgio Strehler and, as of today, one of the most important theatrical institutions in Europe.
The Decree dated 27 July 2017 issued by the Ministry for Cultural Heritage and Activity and Tourism recognises the autonomy and the international role of the Piccolo Teatro, which - in a position that is unique - has the obligation to run a specialist School of Theatre that is closely linked to the Theatre and identified as an integral part of the theatre’s activities.

Recognised as an international excellence in the field of actor training, the Piccolo School of Theatre is particular in that during the training period it involves the students in the Piccolo’s productions, guaranteeing an on-going and profitable exchange between the classroom and the stage.

The Luca Ronconi School is a school for actors offering three-year courses for a total of approximately 4500 hours of lessons.

In order to gain a place on the course, it is necessary to take part in a competition that is organised every three years. October 2017 saw the beginning of lessons for the eleventh course, which has been named after Giorgio Strehler (2017/2020). As on 23 February 2020 the crisis surrounding COVID-19 interrupted all possibilities of providing continuous training to the students, depriving them of the possibility to achieve their goal, in agreement with the Lombardy Region the School decided to extend the Giorgo Strehler course, which between May and July of 2021 will prepare the final show under the guidance of the director Carmelo Rifici. The call for applicants for the new three-year training course will therefore be published in January 2021.

In order to access the Course, prospective students have to pass an entrance exam. Each course has between 20 and 24 students.

The school is completely free of charge. A contribution for registrar fees is requested in order to take the entrance exam.

Attendance is obligatory. The missing of 25% or more of the total number of annual hours will lead to expulsion from the school.

The students are obliged to respect the rules in an extract of the stage regulations signed by them on enrolment.

The Luca Ronconi school for actors is accredited by the Lombardy Region, listed in the Lombardy Region register for operators of professional training and instruction, and currently receives funding for the course From the classroom to the stage (March 2017 - November 2021) , part of the “Lombardia Plus - Linea Cultura” initiative that forms part of the policies put into place in order to support activities aimed at the objectives and purposes of section I - POR FSE Lombardy 2014/2020, and in particular of Action 8.1.1 - “active policies with particular focus on sectors that offer increased possibilities for growth”.

The courses
Each course is named after an important figure from modern theatre.

1st - 1987/1990, the Jacques Copeau course
650 candidates, 31 students admitted, 29 graduated:
Sara Alzetta, Sonia Bergamasco, Giorgio Bongiovanni, Paolo Calabresi, Maria Gabriella Campanile,  Umberto Carmignani, Marta Comerio, Luca Criscuoli,  Leonardo De Colle, Gaia De Laurentiis, Stefano De Luca, Simona Fais, Simona Ferraro, Mario Guariso, Stefano Guizzi, Sergio Leone, Nicoletta Maragno, Sara Masini, Paola Morales, Claudia Negrin, Ilaria Onorato, Laura Pasetti, Mace Perlman, Rossana Piano, Stefano Quatrosi, Federica Roberto,  Victoria Salvador Villalba, Maria Teresa Sintoni,  Laura Torelli, Silvano Torrieri

2nd - 1990/1993 the Eleonora Duse course
440 candidates, 19 students admitted, 18 graduated:
Paola Benocci, Vincenzo Bocciarelli, Francesco Cordella, Margherita Di Rauso, Cristina Ferrajoli, Pia Lanciotti,  Maxmilian Mazzotta, Alessandro Mor, Maximilian Nisi,  Rinaldo Rocco, Patrizia Romeo, Paola Roscioli, Luca Scaglia, Giorgia Senesi, Maria Grazia Solano, Marina Sorrenti, Maria Egle Spotorno, Matteo Verona

3rd - 1993/1996 the Konstantin Stanislavski course 
420 candidates, 25 students admitted, 15 graduated:
Massimiliano Andrighetto, Roberto Andrioli, Biancamaria D’Amato, Giovanna Di Rauso, Marco Fubini, Ugo Giacomazzi, Alessandra Gigli, Diego Gueci, Mercedes Martini, Giulia Mombelli, Michele Nani, Carmen Panarello, Andrea Riva De Onestis, Silvia Soncini, Debora Zuin

4th - 1996/1999 the Louis Jouvet course
560 candidates, 26 students admitted, 24 graduated:
Elena Arvigo, Matteo Reza Azchirvani, Claudia Carlone, Serena Cazzola, Pierlugi Corallo, Luigi Distinto, Barbara Esposito, Elena Ferrari, Emanuele Fortunati, Giuseppe Fraccaro, Francesco Guidi, Francesca Inaudi,  Francesco Italiano, Annachiara Mantovani, Tommaso Minniti, Candida Nieri, Enrico Petronio, Christian Poggioni, Michele Radice, Annamaria Rossano, Nicole Vignola, Lorenzo Volpi Lutteri, Greta Zamparini, Sara Zoia

5th - 1999/2002 the Vsevolod Mejerchold course
511 candidates, 24 students admitted, 24 graduated:
Federica Armillis, Benedetto Bianchi, Luca Carboni, Maurizio Ciccolella, Pasquale Di Filippo, Raffaele Esposito, Laura Gambarin, Rossana Giordano, Giada Lorusso, Diana Manea, Marco Mattiuzzo, Stefano Moretti, Nicola Orofino, Valentina Picello, Angela Rafanelli, Erika Renai Cappelli, Vladimiro Russo, Chiara Rivoli, Irene Serini, Mirko Soldano, Chiara Stoppa, Simone Toni, Sara Tosi, Francesco Vitale

6th - 2002/2005 the Sergio Tofano course
850 candidates, 27 students admitted, 26 graduated:
Alice Bachi, Valentina Bartolo, Marco Brinzi, Fausto Cabra, Angelo Campolo, Federica Castellini, Gabriele Ciavarra, Mirko Ciotta, Giorgio Consoli, Luigi Di Pietro, Tiziano Ferrari, Luca Fiorino, Maddalena Gessi, Michele Giaquinto, Silvia Grande, Silvia Masotti, Ilenia Porcarelli, Matteo Romoli, Camillo Rossi Barattini, Giorgio Sangati, Caterina Simonelli, Rosanna Sparapano, Giulia Valenti, Jacopo Veronese, Emilio Zanetti, Camilla Zorzi

7th - 2005/2008 the Bertolt Brecht course 
1160 candidates, 28 students admitted, 27 graduated:
Ivan Alovisio, Caterina Bajetta, Emanuele Banchio, Clio Cipolletta, Ettore Colombo, Andrea Coppone, Silvia Degrandi, Laura Dell'Albani, Gabriele Falsetta, Marcella Favilla, Elisabetta Fusari, Paolo Garghentino, Andrea Germani, Andrea Luini, Fabrizio Martorelli, Antonio Mingarelli, Beatrice Niero, Luca Nucera, Eugenio Olivieri, Silvia Pernarella, Stella Piccioni, Silvia Pietta, Francesca Puglisi, Nicol Quaglia, Riccardo Ripani, Giuseppe Sartori, Camilla Semino Favro

8th - 2008/2011 the Evgenij Vachtangov course 
920 candidates, 32 students admitted, 32 graduated:
Maria Blandolino, Sebastiano Bottari, Nastassia Calia, Carolina Cametti, Lisa Capaccioli, Valentina Cardinali, Walter Cerrotta, Martin Chishimba, Nicola Ciaffoni, Paola Crisostomo, Pierpaolo D'Alessandro, Matteo De Mojana, Marco Di Giorgio, Dora Di Mauro, Lorenza Fantoni, Ilaria Fratoni, Mauro Lamantia, Katia Mirabella, Davide Paciolla, Matthieu Pastore, Riccardo Pumpo, David Remondini, Filippo Renda, Federica Rosellini, Jeanne Santos, Mattia Sartoni, Elisabetta Scarano, Ivan Senin, Laura Serena, Simone Tangolo, Anahì Traversi, Valentina Violo

9th - 2011/2014 the Jean Louis Barrault course 
871 candidates, 30 students admitted, 29 graduated:
Letizia Bravi, Valeria de Santis, Francesca Del Fa, Lorenzo Demaria, Elisa Fedrizzi, Maria Laila Fernandez, Domenico Florio, Ruggero Franceschini, Claudia Gambino, Davide Domenico Gasparro, Federica Gelosa, Gilberto Giuliani, Giusy Emanuela Iannone, Linda Macchi, Simone Marconi, Lucia Marinsalta, Lorenzo Massa, Federico Meccoli, David Amadeus Meden, Sylvia Katrina Milton, Daniele Molino, Maria Laura Palmeri, Nicolò Parodi, Andrea Preti, Livio Santiago Remuzzi, Roberta Rigano, Francesca Tripaldi, Giulia Vecchio, Marouane Zotti

10th - 2014/2017 the Luchino Visconti course 
28 students admitted, 28 graduated:
Giuseppe Aceto, Alessandro Bandini,Roberta Bonora, Alfonso De Vreese, Aurelio Di Virgilio,Salvatore Drago, Caterina Filograno, Ugo Fiore, Matteo Gatta, Valentina Ghelfi, Yasmin Karam, Leda Kreider, Marta Malvestiti, Viola Marietti, Marica Mastromarino, Cristina Nurisso, Benedetto Patruno, Claudio Pellerito, Matteo Principi, Marco Risiglione, Elena Rivoltini, Walter Rizzuto, Livia Rossi, Martina Sammarco, Francesco Santagada, Jacopo Sorbini, Sacha Trapletti, Annapaola Trevenzuoli