Lorenzo Donati

PhD, Research fellow at the Department of Arts, he is a theatre critic, cultural planner and educator.
At Unibo, he teaches Performing arts in the between art and care at the Professional Education First Cicle Degree and Promotion and development of the performing arts at the Master in Entrepreneurship.

His fields of studies are the “reality trend” in contemporary performing arts, the argentinian theatre and Educational and Community Theatre. He is currently conducting research on the changes in theatre after the Pandemics (Department of the Arts, tutor Gerardo Guccini).

His essays have appeared in "Prove di Drammaturgia", "Culture Teatrali", "Sociologia della comunicazione" and in volumes published by Giunti, Cue Press, Titivillus. In 2018 he co-curated Crescere nell'assurdo. Uno sguardo dallo Stretto (with R. Mazzaglia).

As a critic, is one of the founders of Altre Velocità and since 2020 has co-directed "La Falena", a magazine of the Teatro Metastasio in Prato. He is a member of the Scientific Committee of the Ubu Awards.