Pino Scicluna was born in Malta in 1956. He graduated in Animal Husbandry and then obtained a diploma with distinction in dramatic art from the Manoel Theatre in Malta and started to work with ATEATRU, a young theatre group with artists such as Peter Busuttil, Michel Fenech, Domnic Said, Guzi Gatt, Anna Stivala, Alfred Buttigieg, Francis Ebejer and many others. The group performed works by Alfred Jary, Dario Fo, Jean Janet, Harold Pinter as well as by Maltese dramatists; Alfred Buttigieg, Oreste Calleja and Francis Ebejer. The latter wrote a play for Scicluna called “Il Gahan ta Bingemma”, with Scicluna playing the role of the Gahan. In the 90’s, he went to Italy where he decided to channel all his energy andinto theatre, making it his profession.Since then Scicluna has worked as an actor with a number of Italian theatre groups such as Taeatro Studio Tre, TeatroInvito, Teatro La Ribalta, Teatro Inverso, Masnada Teatro, Erbamil and Scarlattine Teatro. Meanwhile, in Malta he worked on a number of productions, including Marlow’s Dr. Faustus and a theatrical monologue about the actor’s father who was interned by the English during the Second World War, directed by Giuseppe Schembri Bonaci. With Peter Busutill as director, Scicluna also worked on “Igsmaihirsa” written byOreste Calleja, on “Nistenna lil Godot” written by Samuel Beckett, and on “Ghaziz Francis” written by Marco Galea, a performance dedicated to Francis Ebejer.
Together with Katia Capato Scicluna formed “NuoveCosmogonieTeatro” and produced performances on Caravaggio, Cheeta; Tarzan’s animal friend, “Corto Maltese: The Ballad of a Maltese Sailor”, performed at Notte Bianca in Malta in 2010,“I. D. Internati u Deportati”; the whole Odyssey of Scicluna’s father, including his exile, performed in Malta 2012,“Gwerra, Familti. . . u Ommi”; a monologue narrating stories of his Italian uncle which occurred during World War II, performed at the Malta Arts Festival in 2013.
Currently he is working on a project for Valletta 2018 with Nuove Cosmogonie Teatro and is preparing two other theatrical projects. One is on the man who weighed the world, Mr. Henry Cavendish. The other is the life of the eccentric and popular women painter from the Renaissance period, Artemisia Gentileschi.
