Round Table And after Generation T? Spotlight on the present

A dialogue between Damiano Pellegrino, Stefano Romagnoli, Maura Teofili, POLIS NEON’s companies, coordinated by Laura Palmieri.

The title of this meeting is meant to be a tribute to one of the most thoughtful critics who followed and supported the generation that emerged in Italy in the early 2000s, Renato Palazzi, who called it precisely Generation T. What has moved in the last 20 years? How many other generations have defined themselves? What are they looking for? What are they asking for? These are questions we will try to answer, albeit in an inevitably partial way, together with the young artists present at POLIS NEON.


Laura Palmieri. Since 1983 she began to collaborate with Rai Radiotelevisione Italiana for several television programs on Rai1, dealing with theatrical and other news. Starting in 1988 and until 1995 she works in the Press Office staff of the Spoleto Festival, collaborates in the promotion of some productions distributed in Italy by Andres Neumann, and follows as press office several theater companies. Since 1996 she began working at Rai Radio3 with specific theatrical skills. In addition to curating Rai Radio3’s theatrical programming, since the early 2000s she has led the weekly column Teatri in Prova, in which she gave voice to the Italian contemporary scene, recounting the creative process of the performances together with their protagonists.

Damiano Pellegrino, after obtaining his master’s degree in Visual Arts in Bologna with a thesis dedicated to two works of the Children’s Theater of Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio, he joins the editorial staff of “Altre Velocità. Intermittent editorial staff on contemporary performing arts”. In Catania inside the Teatro Coppola Occupato, between 2018 and 2020, he, along with other volunteers, initiated a program dedicated to childhood entitled “Squonk. Little Ones at the Coppola Theater”. He is the author of several articles in journals such as «Arabeschi. Rivista di studi su letteratura e visualità», «93% – Materiali per una politica non verbale», «La Falena. Rivista di critica e cultura teatrale», «HYSTRIO. Trimestrale di teatro e spettacolo».

Stefano Romagnoli. Spettatoreprofessionista was born in 2016 as a Facebook profile but already in 1996 the passion for theater was realized thanks to the view of the performance directed by Vacis with Eugenio Allegri on stage who later became a very dear friend and main reference for my theatrical vision. In 2019 I am a finalist in the RETE CRITICA award with my project. Since 2021, thanks to Laura Palmieri, I have been a guest on the Rai Radio3 program “Pantagruel”. I collaborate with Oliviero Ponte di Pino on the drafting of the MANIFESTO DELLO SPETTATORE; I am part of the board of TROVAFESTIVAL headed by Giulia Alonzo. To this day I have seen almost 4,000 shows. Since 2023 I have collaborated with the press and promotion office of the SPOLETO FESTIVAL, with the EAT ENOGASTRONOMIA A TEATRO Festival in Spoleto, with FONTEMAGGIORE in Perugia, and with the Teatro San Fedele in Montone (PG).

Maura Teofili. She is a curator, artistic director and cultural professional. Since 2008 she collaborates with Fondazione Romaeuropa for the artistic production of the Romaeuropa Festival. As part of the event, starting in 2017, she imagines and curates “Anni Luce_osservatorio di futuri possibili”, a project dedicated to the exploration and enhancement of the emerging national scene, which has brought to the public’s attention some of the most interesting new signatures of recent years. As part of her collaboration with REf, she supports the artistic direction in monitoring the national scene; follows the programming of Italian projects; coordinates and develops dedicated projects including Powered by REf, a call for artists under 30 and the original format Ghost Track. She is co-founder and artistic director of Carrozzerie | n.o.t, an independent space in Rome that since 2013 has been dedicated to scouting and mentoring emerging artists, supporting research in contemporary languages and permanent artistic education. In 2018 she is a finalist candidate for the Ubu Prize in the category best curator/organizer. As of 2022 she is among the members of the committee of the Forever Young Prize of La Corte Ospitale. As a speaker or lecturer, she has taken part in modules dedicated to management, curatorship and organization in the field of performing and performing arts at the Master in Arts Management of the IED – European Institute of Design, Link University and La Sapienza University of Rome. Since 2025 she is in the jury of the Riccione Theatre Prize.