Francesca Leoni
Artist, Painting, Performing Arts, Theater
Italy

Theater designer, set designer, painter, art historian. She works at the Ministry of Cultural Heritage at the Fashion and Costume Museum and with various theater companies in Tuscany. Since 2008, she has worked as a freelance set designer, mainly in the theater as a designer of exhibition spaces.

She created the setup for the two days of readings titled «Dove / Non Dove». Places seen, places imagined in the Florence State Archive (May 18-19, 2017). She was a painter for the creation of the ITT Marco Polo teaching classroom in Florence (June – September 2016). She made the props for the theatrical tour Una Società A Responsabilita limited by the musical group Brunori Sas (March 2015 – September 2015).

In May 2015 she designed and created the convention for employees of the Hotel Savoy in Florence (May 2015).

Since 2011 she has collaborated as a set designer at the Teatro di Impresa, a company that offers services to companies in the fields of Training and Communication using theater as a means of expression. In addition to having created shows for companies such as Repower (Teatro Carcano in Milan, September 2011), it has designed and built its stand for the Employment Fair from December 2011, at the Fiera di Milano and annually design the assembly and carry out the props for the courses that Te.D creates around the different companies.

She began his career as a set designer in September 2007, designing the stand of the Academy of Fine Arts for the Della Creatività Festival that took place from October 25 to 28, 2007 in Florence. The stand hosted the performances of the students of the different courses of the Academy. He was in charge of the graphic part of the project and participated in the installation of the stand at the Fortezza Da Basso.

In recent years she has worked in Rome at the Furio Camillo Theater (Lap-Shame, directed by Vieri Franchini Stappo, December 2009) in Florence for the Le Laudi theater, the Cestello Theater, the Puccini Theater, the Obihall, the Teatro Everest. and the Cantiere Florida, in Prato with Magnolfi. He also made several graphic works, such as posters for shows, the logo of the Asociación Amigos de Chicco Onlus, the cover of the novel Rock & Gol by Benedetto Ferrara, with the related display of the Edison bookstore window on the occasion of the book launch.