The School
The School
Teatro Azione is an acting school founded in 1983 by Cristiano Censi and Isabella Del Bianco.
The aim of the School is to train actors through a path of personal, artistic, and professional growth based on theoretical study and the practice of the art of acting in both theater and film.
In line with the founders’ avant-garde artistic work in writing and acting, Teatro Azione is in constant transformation and exploration, welcoming new languages and artistic experiences with the goal of enriching the educational process.
The School places the individual, the student, at the center and continues to support them even after graduation through collaboration with agencies, casting, and, in general, with all the professionals in the field.
Since its inception, Teatro Azione has shown a strong interest in the world of work, and artists and masters such as Vittorio Gassman, Glauco Mauri, Giorgio Albertazzi, Paolo Poli, Gigi Proietti, Massimo Ranieri have recognized the quality of the School by casting its students
Among the actors who have trained at Teatro Azione are: Elio Germano, Maya Sansa, Edoardo Pesce, Valentina Carnelutti, Michela Giraud, Antonio Folletto, Simone Liberati, Maria Chiara Centorami, Luigi Pisani, Antonio Grosso, Giulia Galiani, Nicolas Vaporidis, Carolina Crescentini.
The Beginning of the Story
Teatro Azione is an acting school founded in 1983 by Cristiano Censi and Isabella Del Bianco.
Cristiano Censi was an actor and director who trained in the late 1950s at the Piccolo School in Milan under Giorgio Strehler.
After graduating, he worked as an actor at the Piccolo for two seasons, in Dario Fo’s company, and later at the Stabile theaters in Turin, Bologna, and Florence.
In the 1970s, he founded his own company with Isabella Del Bianco: “Cristiano and Isabella.”
Isabella Del Bianco is an actress who graduated from the Silvio d’Amico Academy in Rome. After years of touring with Franco Enriquez’s Compagnia dei Quattro, alongside Glauco Mauri and Valeria Moriconi, she joined the Stabile Theater in Florence, where she worked as an actress for two years. Together with Cristiano Censi, she founded the “Cristiano and Isabella” company.
They worked together for years in Italian and European theaters, collaborating with, among others, Eugène Ionesco, Umberto Eco, Andrea Camilleri, Stefano Satta Flores, Vittorio Mezzogiorno, and Alida Cappellini.
In 1983, they founded the Teatro Azione acting school.
EXPLORE THE TA WORLD
Step into TA with our Virtual Tour and discover the theater spaces, workshops, and rehearsal rooms used by our students.
EXPLORE THE TA WORLD
Step into TA with our Virtual Tour and discover the theater spaces, workshops, and rehearsal rooms used by our students.
