Mirella Schino (1956) is currently teaching performance studies at the University of Roma Tre (since 2010). Since 2004 she is director of the international journal of theatre studies: Teatro e Storia (www.teatroestoria.it). She founded and directed the Odin Teatret Archives, from 2018 to 2015. From the work in the archives comes Il libro degli Inventari. Odin Teatret Archives, Roma, Bulzoni, 2015 (English edition: The Odin Teatret Archives, Routledge 2018).
Her main research interest are: 1) issues related to the Great Actor ( Il teatro di Eleonora Duse, Roma, Bulzoni, 2008; and I Racconti del Grande Attore. Tra la Rachel e la Duse, Cue press 2016); 2) the great european reform of the first decades of the twentieth century (La nascita della regia, Roma, Laterza, 2003, L'età dei maestri, Roma, Viella 2017, An Indra's Web. The Age of Appia, Craig, Stanislavski, Meyerhold, Copeau, Artaud, Holstebro-Wrocław-Malta, 2018); 3) issues related to the Italian and European Theatre Laboratories and Experimental Theatre the last thirty years (Il crocevia sul ponte d'Era. Storie e voci da una generazione teatrale. 1974-1995, Roma, Bulzoni, 1996; Eugenio Barba, Il prossimo spettacolo, edited by Mirella Schino, L'Aquila, Textus, 1999, Alchemists of the Stage. Theatre Laboratories in Europe, Icarus, Holstebro-Malta-Wroclaw, 2009, ed. it. Alchimisti della scena, I Teatri Laboratorio in Europa, Roma, Laterza, 2009, portuguese edition Alquimistas do palco. Os Laboratórios tetrais na Europa, São Paulo, Perspectiva, 2012).
She has also written: F.Taviani-M.Schino, Il segreto della Commedia dell'Arte, Firenze, Usher, 1982; Profilo del teatro italiano. Dal XV al XX secolo [1995], Roma, Carocci, 2002.