Magdalena Barile is a playwright, screenwriter and dramaturgy teacher. Since 2020 she is the playwriting course coordinator at Civica Scuola di Teatro Paolo Grassi in Milan, Italy. As a playwright she has been working with some of the main artistic and productive realities in Italy e.g. Teatro dell’Elfo di Milano, Teatro Stabile di Torino, Biennale di Venezia, Piccolo Teatro di Milano, Il Mulino di Amleto (Turin), Accademia degli Artefatti (Rome), Attodue/Murmuris (Florence), Animanera (Milan), Motus (Rimini).
Since 2012 she is a Fabulamundi author. Her plays have been translated in French, English, Catalan, German, Swedish and Russian. She has been working for over ten years as screenwriter for the Italian Swiss Television (RSI) and for the majors Italian broadcasters in successful shows such as Camera Café and l’Albero Azzurro. For over ten years she also teaches screenwriting at the video design course at IED European Institute of Design in Milan. Her latest book Gentleman Anne and other feminist plays published by Vanda Edizioni is a collection of plays about queer identities.
