Giorgio U. Bozzo
Giorgio Umberto Bozzo (Rapallo, 1963) is a radio and television writer, freelance journalist, theatre director, essayist and trainer.
After working in the record industry in the 1980s, in 1991 he began collaborating as a writer for RAI TV and Radio RAI, devising and writing numerous programmes.
He also works as a talent scout, discovering and launching the careers of several well-known television personalities such as Platinette, La Pina and Costantino della Gherardesca, whose management he looked after for a long time.
For the theatre he created the characters of Gennaro Cosmo Parlato and of the Sorelle Marinetti, for whom he writes and directs various shows and produces several records.
In 2018 he translated Mart Crowley’s play The Boys in the Band, which debuted under his direction in June 2019 in Milan to great public and critical success, and then toured many Italian cities.
In 2022 he translated and directed the play Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike by the American playwright Christopher Durang.
He writes for various newspapers and magazines and collaborates with prestigious institutions.
He is also the author of podcasts, including Le Radici dell’Orgoglio (“The Roots of Pride”, produced by the cultural association of the same name, of which he is president) and La Vita che merito – Voci di rinascita Lgbtqia+ (“The Life I Deserve – Voices of LGBTQIA+ Rebirth”, produced by OnePodcast in collaboration with «La Stampa» and Circolo di Cultura Omosessuale Mario Mieli.
For years he has carried out research and collected testimonies in order to spread the history of the LGBTQIA+ movement and community in Italy.
In May 2024 the first volume of his essay Le Radici dell’Orgoglio sulla storia del movimento e della comunità LGBTQIA+ in Italia (“The Roots of Pride: on the history of the LGBTQIA+ movement and community in Italy”) was published. In June 2025 came «Non esistono bambini arcobaleno» – Testimonianze di infanzie e adolescenze LGBTQIA+ (“‘There are no rainbow children’ – Testimonies of LGBTQIA+ childhoods and adolescences”).
He is committed to spreading the history of LGBT+ people in Italy with the performance lecture Alle Radici dell’Orgoglio and is writing the theatrical storytelling piece Lo strano caso di Agostina Meravigli, detta “La D’Artagnan”, which will premiere in spring 2027.