Ugo Chiti (Greve in Chianti, February 13, 1943) is a playwright, screenwriter, director, set and costume designer.
In 1970 he left the research group “Ouroboros” directed by Pier’Alli to form the company “Street Theatre” with a willingness to experiment with their own expressive language so as to combine that experience with the modules of the popular drama. With the “Teatro in piazza”, as author, designer, costume designer and director, Chiti produced his first shows.
In 1973 he joined the center F.L.O.G. Florence (currently Auditorium Flog) for research and documentation of folk traditions, launching a project of critical analysis in the Tuscan vernacular drama.
Began a collaboration with the Teatro dell’Affratellamento of Florence as part of a research on “historical avant-garde” in 1977, realizing a path to first show inspired by The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe. Later stages “Così è sevi pare” of Pirandello, with the original texts, “Shakespeare… read more
Ugo Chiti (Greve in Chianti, February 13, 1943) is a playwright, screenwriter, director, set and costume designer.
In 1970 he left the research group “Ouroboros” directed by Pier’Alli to form the company “Street Theatre” with a willingness to experiment with their own expressive language so as to combine that experience with the modules of the popular drama. With the “Teatro in piazza”, as author, designer, costume designer and director, Chiti produced his first shows.
In 1973 he joined the center F.L.O.G. Florence (currently Auditorium Flog) for research and documentation of folk traditions, launching a project of critical analysis in the Tuscan vernacular drama.
Began a collaboration with the Teatro dell’Affratellamento of Florence as part of a research on “historical avant-garde” in 1977, realizing a path to first show inspired by The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe. Later stages “Così è sevi pare” of Pirandello, with the original texts, “Shakespeare Suite” and “Obscene vaudeville.” In the same year for the Summer Fiesole he directed Britten’s opera “The Ark of Noah.”
In 1980 he began to work as costume and set designer, with Alessandro Benvenuti in the film “Ad ovst di Paperino”
Since 1983, he worked for a few years with a new company, the “Teatro Arkhè” which sets the scene: “Visit to Kafka”, “Gilgamesh” and “Telenovela Hollywood.” Gets a prestigious reporting to the Pirandello Prize with the text “Phaedra”. Between 1984 and 1986, always with the theater Arkhè and cadets of the laboratories which operates in collaboration with the municipality of Florence, produces the shows “Moons of Carnival” and “Poe Interiors.”
I n parallel, he continued his work in cinema, collaborating with Alessandro Benvenuti, Giovanni Veronesi and Francesco Nuti as co-writer in their films. In 1990 he was engaged as a co-writer and costume designer in the film based on the text of “Benvenuti in casa Gori” directed by Benvenuti and attend the Festival Europa Cinema. Wrote the screenplay for “Willy Signori e vengo da lontano” together with Francesco Nuti and Giovanni Veronesi. In 1991 it was the turn of “Zitto e mosca” by Alessandro Benvenuti and “Donne con le gonne” by Francesco Nuti.
In 1993, still with Alessandro Benvenuti wrote the screenplay for "Caino e Caino with Enrico Montesano. Gets the David di Donatello prize in 1993 for his screenplay for “Per amore, solo per amore” of Giovanni Veronesi, starring Diego Abatantuono. Signed in 1994, the screenplay for “Occhio Pinocchio” with Francesco Nuti and Giovanni Veronesi.
He debuted as a film director in 1996 with the film Hotel Rome (winner of the Kodak prize) based on his stage play “Allegretto (decent … but not too much).”
“La seconda moglie” of 1998 is the second experience in screenwriting and film direction by Ugo Chiti.
Writer of the most sensitive and prolific of Italian cinema, is stepping up its work of film writing winning prizes and acclaim from critics and audiences. Last, in chronological order, the numerous awards for the screenplay of Gomorrah based on the book by Roberto Saviano. —Wikipedia
