{{Short description |Italian thestre director, artist, puppeteer (1947–2015)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2023}} {{Orphan|date=July 2022}} '''Pierangelo Summa''' (19 August 1947 – 15 July 2015) also known as '''Piero Summa''', was an Italian theatre director,<ref>Hélène Bernard, Denise Maréchal, Sophie Saulnier et Laure Warot, "Français 1re technologique Bac 2021 : Prépabac Réussir l'examen : nouveau programme de Première 2020-2021" (French high school book), Hatier, 19 August 2020, 320 p. ({{ISBN|978-2-401-07508-5}}), p. 171</ref> theatre masks creator,<ref>{{cite web|title=Interview on French Television, 1997|website = YouTube| date=22 January 2016 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hS78ke8S9DA}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Pierangelo Summa|url=https://www.exibart.com/artista-curatore-critico-arte/pierangelo-summa/|access-date=2022-01-04|website=exibart.com|language=it-IT}}</ref> and puppeteer.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://viaf.org/viaf/312711786/|title=Summa, Pierangelo}}</ref>

==Biography== Born in Como, Italy, he is mostly known in Europe. Even if he can be considered as one of the leaders of the Italian theater movement of the 1970s, for his puppets, commedia dell'arte masks<ref>{{Cite web|title=ISNI 0000000008846546 Summa, Pierangelo|url=https://isni.oclc.org/xslt/DB=1.2//CMD?ACT=SRCH&IKT=8006&TRM=ISN:0000000008846546&TERMS_OF_USE_AGREED=Y&terms_of_use_agree=send&COOKIE=U51,KENDUSER,I28,B0028++++++,SY,NISNI,D1.2,Efd9c08d2-f,A,H1,,3-28,,30-41,,43-59,,65-70,,74-75,R208.80.154.81,FY|access-date=2022-01-04|website=isni.oclc.org}}</ref> and theatre directing, he mainly became known in France from the 1980s on, and even more after his death in 2015, when his work was rediscovered and brought to light by his son, Robin Summa.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb15016379m|title=Summa|via=BnF Catalogue général }}</ref>

Summa first started his activity by participating in a few puppet troupes, one of which, ''La Gabbia dei Giupitt'', animated the television show ''Il Giudice di Roccastorta'' on Swiss television Radiotelevisione svizzera (RSI) in 1977.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Zap Zap TV • Leggi argomento - Tv Svizzera dei Ragazzi e dei piccoli degli anni 70|url=http://www.tv-pedia.com/zapzaptv/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=5951&start=60|access-date=2022-01-08|website=www.tv-pedia.com|archive-date=19 March 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180319151120/http://www.tv-pedia.com/zapzaptv/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=5951&start=60|url-status=dead}}</ref>

In the 1990s, his work progressively became more and more concentrated on theatre directing, in France, Italy, but also Germany, Lebanon<ref>« Coup de théâtre poétique pour un homme seul », ''Magazine Prestige'', June 2001, p. 98</ref> or Georgia.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Pierangelo Summa parle des Bonnes de Jean Genet| date=24 July 2019 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEyRJhowQ_Y|language=en|access-date=2022-01-04}}, interview on georgian national television, 2011</ref>

Since 2019, his son, Robin Summa, took over his commedia dell'arte masks creation in Naples, Italy,<ref>{{Cite web|title=Mask is freedom|url=https://wemakeit.com/projects/mask-is-freedom?locale=en|access-date=2022-01-04|website=Crowdfunding on wemakeit|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=The Masks Before the Masks: Carnaval |url=https://masqalors.ca/en/festival/edition/2021/the-masks-before-the-masks-carnaval/|access-date=2022-01-04|website=Masq'alors!|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Robin Summa Artist from Pithiviers, France – Artworks: Sculpture & Installation|url=https://artelaguna.world/artist/summa-robin/|access-date=2022-01-04|website=artelaguna.world|language=en-US}}</ref> where he opened a shop dedicated to theatre masks' crafting, ''La maschera è libertà''.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Crescenzo|first=Stefano De|date=2021-01-12|title=La Maschera è Libertà: una "Bottega Teatrale" nel cuore di Napoli|url=https://omniadigitale.it/la-maschera-e-liberta-una-bottega-teatrale-nel-cuore-di-napoli/|access-date=2022-01-04|website=OMNIADIGITALE.IT|language=it-IT}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title="La Maschera è Libertà": a Napoli apre la bottega di maschere di teatro|url=https://www.napolitoday.it/eventi/inaugurazione-maschera-e-liberta-bottega-maschere-teatro.html|access-date=2022-01-04|website=NapoliToday|language=it}}</ref>

He also edited some writings and lessons of his father in Italy. The book has the same title as the shop.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2021-12-13|title=Robin Summa, dalla filosofia della Sorbona a Napoli, portando con sé i calchi fatti dal padre Pierangelo, reinventa la commedia dell'arte e la maschera di Pulcinella|url=https://www.ilsudonline.it/robin-summa-dalla-filosofia-della-sorbona-a-napoli-portando-con-se-i-calchi-fatti-dal-padre-pierangelo-reinventa-la-commedia-dellarte-e-la-maschera-di-pulcinella/|access-date=2022-01-04|website=IlSudOnLine|language=it-IT}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Summa|first=Robin|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=L8F9zAEACAAJ|title=La maschera è libertà. Storia di un'insurrezione teatrale|date=2019|publisher=Il Quaderno Edizioni|isbn=978-88-32098-16-7|language=it}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Dalla Sorbona a Napoli inseguendo Pulcinella |language=it |url=https://www.pressreader.com/italy/corriere-del-mezzogiorno-campania/20200117/281788516012672|access-date=2022-01-04|via=PressReader}}</ref>

Summa died in Paris, France.

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