Valeria Iacampo

Her first encounter with art was at the age of 12 when she started attending a ballet and modern dance school for 9 years before taking on the Theatre Academy of Rome S.A., where she graduated in acting at the age of 24. Valeria also attended the Denton Ballet Academy in Texas and specialized in contemporary dance at the I.A.L.S. in Rome. In 2012 she graduated at the University of Roma 3 in Cinema and Visual Arts with the highest score.
Her first acting debut was with La piccola compagnia di Shakespeare, then she worked in different musical productions taking part of M.A.G. (Movimento Artistico Giovanile) for 4 years as a choreographer, dancer and actor. At the age of 25, she directed a dance theatre show inspired by Dostoyevsky’s novel “Notes from Underground” that debuted in Sofia. In that period she had a role in a TV show and worked for some Cinema Productions. in A few years later she started travelling around Europe with the International Theatre directed by Tomaso Thellung, working as an actor and directing workshops for professional actors. She took part in an artistic collective in Sweden, the “Teatermaskinen”, where she performed in a show about Pierpaolo Pasolini; “The Pleaser of Being Shocked”.
In 2018 she got a scholarship for attending a course at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute in Los Angeles, where she founded the theatre company Aliens With Extraordinary Abilities with Eric Paterniani and Veronica Nolte. They debuted with the co-directed play “Longing Pinocchio” in South Hollywood.
When she came back to Europe she worked in Rome as Assistant Choreographer for Paola Maffioletti and as a teacher for the Accademia Fondamenta. She was also the Assistant Director for Massimo De Rossi.
Recently she created an artistic collective in the U.K., where all professional artists are welcome to collaborate.
Her new theatre company in London keeps the name of Aliens With Extraordinary Abilities.