Author Biography
Franco Ruffini (Italy), a founding member of ISTA, has written extensively on theatre anthropology. He is Professor Emeritus of the University Roma Tre. He taught physics and mathematics before devoting himself to theatre history focusing, among other things, on Stanislavski, Artaud, Decroux and Grotowski. His numerous books deal mainly with the reformers of the 20th century theatre. His latest publication is Grotowski e Gurdjieff (Editoriale Scientifica, 2019). His book Theatre and Boxing. The Actor Who Flies has been translated into English (Icarus-Routledge, 2014). Founding member of the journal Teatro e Storia (1986).