12. Madách International Theatre Meeting

He graduated as a director at the “Silvio D’Amico” Accademia Nazionale d’Arte Drammatica in Rome under Andrea Camilleri’s supervision. Jodice was among the founders of the drama group libera mente of which he was artistic director. He co-directed the Centro di Ricerca Teatro Nuovo in Naples, from 1995 to 2000. He created and was artistic director of the Scuola Elementare del Teatro, a popular conservatoire for the scenic arts, an arts and social inclusion project. He is manager of the arts and social inclusion projects of the Teatro Trianon Viviani. He collaborated, with various assignments, with Carmelo Bene, Leo De Berardinis, Carlo Cecchi, Roberto De Simone and with dancers and performers from Pina Bausch’s Tanz Theater, Maguy Marin’s Companie and Mark Morris’s Dance Group. He worked and is working with drama in different disadvantaged locations, such as the Ospedale Psichiatrico S. Maria della Pietà in Rome, in Volterra, Giudecca and Nola correctional institutions, in Naple public dormitory and in Secondigliano OPG (high-security psychiatric hospital). His scenic and educational work was produced and hosted in Italy and France, U.K, Spain, Switzerland, Germany, Sweden as well. He created radio works for Rai Radio3 with the collaboration of Goffredo Fofi and Maurizio Braucci, the collective docufilm “Com’è bella la città”, with Roberta Torre, Pasquale Pozzessere, Giovanni Maderna; he is the main character and author of the scenic writing in “Gelsomina Verde” docufilm, directed by Massimiliano Pacifico. Iodice’s dramatic work is the subject of essays in national and international books and specialist magazines and of graduation and doctorate dissertations at various universities and art schools such as Napoli, Salerno, Milano, Bologna, Pisa, Palermo, Pavia, Cagliari, Siena. The volume “La poetica teatrale di Davide Iodice, by Marina Sorge has been recently published by Ediz. Università di Napoli L’Orientale.