The Board of Directors of the Fondazione del Teatro Stabile di Torino, which met today, in compliance with the provisions of Ministerial Decree No. 463 dated December 23, 2024, has appointed Diego Pleuteri to the role of Junior Artistic Director.
This new position, introduced into the Foundation’s statute, will work alongside Artistic Director Valerio Binasco in developing the part of the programming focused on discovering new national and international artists and productions to present to the public, with particular attention to emerging talents and new languages of the performing arts, thus fostering generational renewal.
Born in 1998, Diego Pleuteri is a writer, dramaturg, and actor, and since 2025, resident playwright at the Teatro Stabile di Torino. With his appointment, the theatre’s leadership is now complete, consisting of Managing Director Filippo Fonsatti, Artistic Director Valerio Binasco, and now Junior Artistic Director Diego Pleuteri.
“The Board of Directors is particularly pleased to announce the appointment of Diego Pleuteri as Junior Artistic Director,” stated the Foundation’s President Alessandro Bianchi. “His youth and creative talent, already demonstrated through numerous successful productions, will bring fresh energy to our programming and help strengthen the connection between TST and the younger generations of artists and audiences. He has our best wishes for his work, as well as the full support of Directors Binasco and Fonsatti, who put forward his candidacy, the Board of Directors, and the entire theatre staff.”
Diego Pleuteri (27), after attending the Writing for Performance Course at the Civica Scuola di Teatro Paolo Grassi, graduated from the Actor Training School of the Teatro Stabile di Torino, and since 2025 has served as its resident playwright. His first play, Madri (2019), won the Eurodram Prize. In 2023, he wrote Come nei giorni migliori, directed by Leonardo Lidi, which after a long run at Teatro Gobetti, was revived in 2025 at Fonderie Limone, and successfully staged at Teatro di Roma and Teatro Franco Parenti in Milan. Both theatres have invited it back for the 2025/2026 season, following a third revival on TST’s main stage. The play was also shortlisted in 2025 for the Carlo Annoni Prize and published by SuiGeneris publishing house. In 2026, it will be produced in Bulgarian by Theatre 199 Valentin Stoychev in Sofia, Bulgaria.
In 2024, Pleuteri wrote Appello all’Europa (A Call to Europe), commissioned by the mitos21 festival, which premiered in Bad Ischl, Austria, the 2024 European Capital of Culture. Next year, the Italian Cultural Institute of Paris will dedicate a special focus to him, presenting his three plays Come nei giorni migliori, Tutto in me è amore, and Madri in the French capital.
His prolific writing career will continue in the 2025/2026 season with Resteremo per sempre qui buone ad aspettarti, again directed by Lidi, and Tutto in me è amore. On the “political body” of Piero Gobetti, directed by Marco Lorenzi.
Additionally, Pleuteri wrote the dramaturgy for Hamlet, the opening production of the 70th season of the Teatro Stabile di Torino, currently on stage at the Teatro Carignano, directed by Leonardo Lidi.
Turin, October 13, 2025
