Enrico Bernard

Enrico Bernard was born in Rome in 1955. He received a degree in philosophy from La Sapienza University in Rome and a doctorate in Italian studies from the University of Zurich. As writer, playwright, essayist, director and screenwriter, he teaches dramaturgy in the United States where he is “artist in residence” at Middlebury College (Vermont, USA). His works include the screenplay of the film “Forever blues” with Franco Nero which won a “Golden Globe,” the play “Holy money” performed in New York and Rome from which the film “The last capitalist” was based. Among his numerous essays “The Most Secret Ties” a vast rereading and new interpretation of neorealism in light of the unpublished Bernari-Zavattini correspondence (1932-1989). He won the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Italian Drama Institute and was awarded the Silver Mask of Italian Theater. His Manifesto of S-naturalist Theater (1992) illustrated by Dario Fo is included in the personal website of Dario Fo and Franca Rame.