Giulia Vitiello is an Italian-born actress, theatre maker, choreographer, performance designer and researcher, working between Brussels and London. Her transdisciplinary practice explores the relationships between personal and collective histories, memory, heritage, migration and belonging. Grounded in artistic research, her work engages with the ways narratives are constructed, transmitted and transformed across generations, and how they shape individual and collective identities.
Her practice as an actress and performer is central to her approach to theatre and artistic creation. Working across theatre, choreography, dramaturgy and stage design, she develops theatrical, post-dramatic and site-responsive practices. Her work often activates theatrical and non-theatrical spaces as places of encounter, where stories, histories and lived experiences can be explored through artistic creation, movement and collective exchange. She is interested in the relationships between performers, bodies, spaces and audiences, and in the ways theatrical languages can make visible, question and transform individual and collective narratives.
She holds a First Class Honours BA in Performance Design and Practice from Central Saint Martins - University of the Arts London and has trained extensively in performance, acting, theatre practices, and theatre making across Europe. She began her training at a young age with Play Magliano and Laboratorio Teatrale Terzo Millennio, and later expanded her studies to include Commedia dell’Arte with Eugenio Allegri, intensive voice training with Daniela Tessore, and a variety of theatre and performance practices and techniques. Her education also includes training at the National Italian Theatre Academy in Salerno, the Zürcher Hochschule der Künste, and RITCS School of Arts in Brussels.She completed a three-year professional programme in contemporary dance and choreography at danscentrumjette, where she has been an artist in residence since 2023.
In 2024, she became co-director of the organisation alongside Roxane Huilmand and, in 2026, founded and took on the direction of its theatrecentrum.
In 2023 she founded dancing from archives, a dance and performaning arts research and creation platform dedicated to industrial heritage, collective memory, and the inclusion of working-class narratives and communities within the performing arts. Its first production, Chapter 1: SUGAR, was selected by Perform Europe and received support to tour across Ireland, Belgium, and Italy.
She has worked internationally as a performer, maker, researcher, teacher, coach, and collaborator across theatre-making, dramaturgy, dance theatre, and performance design, in contexts ranging from independent initiatives to established institutions. Her work has been developed and shared with organisations including NeosKosmos Social House (Athens), Total Insight Theatre and Hub67 (London), MovArt, BRONKS and Cultureghem (Belgium), Insieme Immigrati (Italyp), Steiner School Brussels (Kunstenaar in de Klaas), Labolobo (Belgium), Ciplak Ayaklar Kumpanyasi (Istanbul), the SunLand Foundation (Bulgaria), and EUNIC Romania, the British Council, Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Bucarest, and Zamolxes Foundation (Romania).
Since 2023, she has been a guest teacher in the theatre department of RITCS School of Arts and a member of Common Matters, a collective emerging from the CIRCE – Creative Impact Research Centre network. She also develops and leads inclusive and intergenerational projects, creating and performing in care homes (LaboLobo, Mettewie), and leading Relative.s, an inclusive dance and theatre project developed in collaboration with TOOP.
She has presented her own work and performed at venues across the UK, including Tate Modern, Espacio Gallery, Deptford Lounge, Platform Theatre, Stour Space, Grow Hackney, The Project, Blasé House, and Poplar Union; in Belgium at KVS and danscentrumjette; in Ireland at The Source Arts Centre; in Italy at Teatro Augusteo, Teatro Don Bosco, Teatro di Palazzo Rosso, Teatro Sacco, Teatro Lux, and Piccolo Teatro Iqbal Masih; and in Bucharest at the Romanian Order of Architects and FSPUB.
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