Director and stage, lighting and costume designer Romeo Castellucci (Cesena, Italy, 1960) is known throughout the world for creating a theatre founded on the totality of the arts and aimed at an integral perception. His theatre engages in a type of dramaturgy that overturns the primacy of literature, thus becoming a complex and supple form of art, a theatre made of extraordinarily rich images expressed in a language as comprehensible as music, sculpture, painting or architecture. 
His stagings are regularly invited and produced by the most prestigious international theatres, opera houses and festivals, in over sixty countries covering all the continents. In his career he has received important prizes and awards.
In March 2024, Bérénice, a monologue based on Jean Racine, debuted with Isabelle Huppert. In 2025, he made his debut at the Venice Biennale with I mangiatori di patate - The Potato Eaters, a performance staged on the island of Lazzaretto Vecchio, and in Geneva with a version of Pergolesi's Stabat Mater, performed by Barbara Hannigan and Jacub Josef Orlinski. In 2026, he will appear for the first time at La Scala in Milan with Pelléas et Mélisande, and again at the Salzburg Festival with Saint François d'Assise, while his new theatre debut is expected in autumn 2026.