About us

The diminutive Scotsman Patrick Lynch graduated from Glasgow University with a degree in psychology. To this he added a diploma in dramatherapy and ever since then he has combined the roles of an actor with that of a therapist and workshop leader, on the way attending WOMAD and the Edinburgh Festival three times (twice with his own one man show) appearing on BBC radio and television, founding Lingo theatre company in Italy, performing Commedia dell'Arte and circus-theatre for the Venice Carnival and the Biennale, clowning with the Le Coq company 'Kiklos' of Padua and appearing in Italian film and television such as 'Young Cassanova' by Tangram Films.

He has worked extensively with the theatre company ‘Oily cart’ appearing in 'Jumping Beans', ‘Boing!’, and 'Under your Hat' tours.

He is also co-presenter, with the actress Mina Anwar, of CBBC’s ‘Razzle Dazzle’.

Marcello was born in Sicily in 1955. He graduated in architecture at Milan Polytechnic and his work is situated on the border between figurative art and theatre, between symbolic sculpture and event organisation. In the last ten years he has been involved with installations, exterior and interior art exhibitions and theatre design for the stage and open-air. He has worked in many cities in Italy and abroad, in theatres, in nature reserves, by rivers and lakes, on beaches and up mountains. Some of his work is housed by institutions such as the new library in Maastricht and Olivetti's offices in Rome.

He has written, created and directed numerous children's shows, on the whole adapting myths and fairy-tales such as Hansel and Gretel, Tom Thumb, the 'cantico delle creature' of Saint Francis and the biblical story of creation.

These productions have appeared all over Italy, including 'Il Piccolo' in Milan, in children's theatre festivals and as touring shows in their own right. He has been at the cutting edge of the emerging 'circus- theatre' scene in Italy, being the director of the first three shows of that genre ever performed in Italy - Labirinto Mare, Visioni, and Ombra di Luna, all three based on the myth of Gilgamesh. Last year this series continued with the show ‘Creature’ which toured extensively in Europe and will be added to this February by a show for the Venice Carnival.

Carlo Cialdo Capelli was born in Bologna in 1955 and has lived in Milan since 1985. He studied at the Bologna conservatory with teachers such as G.F. Fugazza, K. Stockhausen, B. Ferneyhough, and G. Petrassi, and participated in the making of The show "Il Treno di John Cage" in 1978.

He works mainly with synthesised and electronic music, writing scores for over 30 theatre shows and working with artisits such as Eros Drusiani, Tino Schirinzi, Arturo Brachetti, Carmelo Bene, Sandro Luporini, Toni Comello, Giorgio Gaber (from 1985 al 1990) il Teatro del Buratto (from 1987 al 1993), Dario Moretti (from 1995), and Accademia Perduta (from 1998).

He was the winner of the 'children's composer' prize in Como with his first work "L'anello magico" (the magic ring) and since then he has specialised in children's theatre often making use of his "Tuttopiano", a piano with a keyboard running all around its perimeter. Since1999 he has directed his own shows such as "The dancer and the pianist", an anthology of the songs of Dario Fo.

Elena Marini comes from Treviso, Italy and has had experience in many aspects of theatre and design, working in Venice with renowned visual artists such as Franco Battachi, designers such as Fiora Gandolfi, the writer Paolo Puppa and theatrical bodies such as the Biennale and the Venice Carnival.

She has worked for the IAUV of Venice University assisting Vera Marzot and in opera for 'La Fenice' assisting Sue Blane. She has also worked in film and television, with institutions like the BBC and Disney and in theatre with companies like Oily cart. On tour with Lyngo she is our stage manager, technician and assistant director.