Luigi Ciotta is a theatre actor, clown, buffoon, street performer and va- riety show presenter. Born in Palermo
in 1979, he moved to Bologna in
2000, where he obtained a first-class
degree with a dissertation on Medie-
val Art. During his university years, he
developed a growing passion for
theatre, which led him to move to Tu-
rin where he studied at the Perfor-
ming Art University under the direc-
tion of P. Radice for three years.
From 2005 on, he has been performing his original shows worldwide, acting in Italian, French, English and Spanish. In 2009 his show Funky Pudding won the Cantieri di Strada "OneManShow" prize, organized by the FNAS (National Federation Street Performers). In 2014 Sweet Dreams won the Cantieri di Strada "OneManShow" once again. Since 2016, he has been leading clowning workshops all over Europe and beyond, as well as staging his other shows, characterised by a mixture of prose theatre and comedy : Tutti in Valigia (Everything in a Suitcase), Sweet Dreams, Funky Pudding, Shoeshine and La Nasca.