Giacomo Romano Davare


Giacomo Romano Davare is an Italian writer, stage director and teacher.

Biography

Davare was born in Alcamo, in the province of Trapani in 1945; he is an actor, stage director, writer, lyricist, composer and songwriter. After getting the high school diploma, he has been navigating worldwide for three years as a sea captain; later he graduated in Economy and Commerce, qualifying as a certified accountant.
After winning a competition for teaching, he taught Applied Mathematics in Commercial Technical Institutes, first in Alcamo, then in Lecco and finally in Morbegno, in the province of Sondrio; later he became a headmaster in high schools.
In 1973, with a literary article on Il Secolo d'Italia, he started a long series of publications which included novels, poems, essays and various dramas, works that are catalogued in National libraries and in those of theatrical companies in Europe, United States and Australia; later he published artiche in different magazines and newspapers, such as Il Giornale di Sicilia, Romagna, Rivista Teatro, Corriere della Valtellina, Cultura di destra. Finally, he collaborated with University of Milano-Bicocca for Italian teachers traineeship.
In 1976, thanks to his artistic experience with Filodrammatica in the Church of Saint Anne, he founded Piccolo Teatro di Alcamo; after his transfer in Lombardy, he has been the artistic director of Compagnia Piccolo Teatro delle Valli of Morbegno since 1983.
He has directed more than one hundred plays for Piccolo Teatro of Alcamo and Piccolo Teatro delle Valli of Sondrio, with a greater propensity for classical authors like Sophocles, Shakespeare, Molière, Goldoni, Pirandello, Cechov, Ibsen, T. Wilder, T.S. Eliot and Arthur Miller.
He has been politically committed, as he first supported the M.S.I. and later A.N. National Alliance, where he covered the office of provincial president; he was an administrator in the province of Trapani and Sondrio, and also a member of the BIM of Sondrio.

Prizes and acknowledgments

Davare has won, or been mentioned, in various Italian literary contests: