Valentino Villa is a director, performer, designated Linklater voice trainer and video artist. After graduating in 1999 under the supervision of Luca Ronconi, he worked as an actor in many of Ronconi's productions until 2007. In 2017, he directed his first opera, Cefalo e Procri by Ernst Krenek, for La Fenice theater in Venice. In 2011, Rodolfo Di Giammarco invited him to direct A Single Man, adapted from the Christopher Isherwood novel. As a director, he was selected to take part in the 2009 Biennale for Young Artists from Europe and the Mediterranean and in the Italian Restyle Project Festival curated by the Kunsthaus Tacheles in Berlin. He has been artistic director of the NNNO company and of Spazio D, a production, research and training company. He teaches drama at the Silvio d’Amico National Academy of Dramatic Art. Together with Deflorian/Tagliarini he won the 2014 Ubu Award for best new Italian stage play or innovative theater for Ce ne andiamo per non darvi altre preoccupazioni.