Cristian Ceresoli - about the author

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Cristian Ceresoli is a writer. With his real first writing La Merda (2012) he won six major awards included the Fringe First Award 2012 for Writing Excellence (first Italian ever), the Arches Award 2012 for Emerging Art, a nomination for Total Theatre Award for Innovation and Premio della Critica as Best Show. La Merda is published by Oberon Books (London) and it has been translated into English, Danish, Gallego, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese and Czech while it is being translated into French, Serbian and German. After four consecutive years of a world tour with extraordinary reviews from The Guardian, The Times, Politiken El Paìs, Fohla de São Paulo and many others following sell-out seasons in London, Edinburgh, Copenhagen, Rome, Madrid, Bologna, São Paulo, Milan, Glasgow, Florence, Berlin, Vilnius and Adelaide. In 2015 the Danish production (Lort) and the Brazilian production (A Merda) have their debut with weeks of sold out. On commission by Arena di Verona, Cristian Ceresoli wrote Othello Sex Machine (2013), an opera libretto. From November 2013 in collaboration of the occupiers of Teatro Valle in Rome, he runs a project of high professional education and production of new writing called Rabbia. He recently wrote La Pratica del Dolore (2015), already translated in Czech.

source: http://www.cristianceresoli.it/