Renato Gabrielli, playwright, actor and theatre director, was born in Milan in 1966. He worked as “dramaturg” in the Teatro Stabile di Brescia from 1997 to 2001. He co-wrote the scripts of the tv series La città infinita (Rai – Rete Tre) and L’albero azzurro (Rai – Rete Due).
He is a teacher of drama writing in workshops at the Università Cattolica di Brescia and Università Statale di Milano.

Some of his plays were produced in Scotland and are available in English:
A mobile thriller (Qualcosa trilla, translated in English by Margaret Rose; Hush Productions, dir. Carrie Cracknell; Herald Angel Award at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2004.)
Death and the City (Qualcosa trilla, Vocazione, Il figlio della 90, translated in English by Margaret Rose, published in “Plays International”, April/May 2004)
A Different Language (Suspect Culture/Teatro Stabile di Trieste, dir. Graham Eatough, 2005)
Eat Your Heart Out (Tre – Una storia d’amore, translated by Ann Marie Di Mambro, Oran Mor, Glasgow, 2009).

Among his other staged plays:
Lettere alla fidanzata (Letters to the fiancée,1989)
Oltremare (Beyond the sea, 1990)
Marta e Maria (1992)
Oplà, siamo vivi! (We’re alive!, 1993)
Moro e il suo boia (Thomas More and his executioner, 1994; published by Edizioni “Vita e Pensiero”)
Zitto, Menocchio! (Shut up, Menocchio!, 1996)
Una donna romantica (A romantic woman, 1998)
Curriculum Vitae (1999)
Giudici (Judges, 2002; published by the theatre review “Hystrio”; translated in German by Sabine Heymann)
Vendutissimi (Everyone is sold off, 2003).
Cesso dentro (Inside Toilet, 2005)
Salviamo i bambini (Let’s save the children, 2006 – awarded with Premio Speciale Autori – Centro Studi “Franco Enriquez”)
Tre – Una storia d’amore (2008 -published by the theatre review “Hystrio” – awarded with Premio Milano per il Teatro 2009).