A Neapolitan psychologist and performer, Simona (she/her) was born in 1982 and trained in physical theatre at the Performing Arts University of Turin before studying the Stanislavsky method for dramaturgical writing and dramatic interpretation alongside Paolo Antonio Simioni. Simona also completed a diploma in storytelling at the Holden School. She has worked in various performance forms for ten years, including puppet theatre, mask theatre, children’s theatre, clowning, burlesque, Commedia dell’Arte and comic writing. She completed national tours in both Italian and English and in addition to acting is also a writer. For Action Theatre (Italy) she has worked as a puppeteer, actress and assistant director.

In 2021, she began the collaboration with Italian-Belgian company Forteresse asbl, for which she built a mechanical goose and conducted training for puppeteers. In 2022, Simona published her play ‘Matassine’ with Edizioni 2000diciassette, which won the Pontedicarta Literary Criticism Prize. It debuted the same year in Naples, directed by Anna Romano, performed by Simona Bisconti, Veronica Mazza and Lia Zinno, produced by Fattore K (Rome) in collaboration with Forteresse (Belgium) and Commedia Futura (Naples). In 2023, with Forteresse and with the support of Belgian production and financing centres, Simona has begun research and development for a new object theater show, ‘Orsolina Una Di Noi’, through various residencies in Italy and Belgium. The show is in collaboration with plastic artist Elodie Hurè. In 2023 Simona took to the stage as an actress for the Commedia dell’Arte show ‘The Italians in England’, written and directed by Rupert Raison.