Biography

Francesca Leoni was born in Italy but grew up in Brazil. After high school she moved to the US where she graduated in Communication Studies at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. During college she started her first Theatre and performance studies being a part of theatre productions and short films. Back in Italy she started working with video productions and kept on studying theatre and performance. In particular she studied film with the Italian film director Marco Bellocchio. And its graduating in performance at Teatro de Los Sentidos with the international group guided by Enrique Vargas. Putting together video and performance was always her objective. This is why she created with Davide Mastrangelo a video performance project.