Actress & performer

Margherita Peluso

A career spanning over 10 years, working with the biggest names in the industry

With a career spanning over 10 years, Margherita Peluso has worked with some of the biggest names in the business and has garnered critical acclaim for her work, nominated as best actress in NYC and Melbourne independent Flim Festival.
An Italian and bilingual performer born in Milan (Italy), Margherita trained in Commedia dell’Arte and physical theatre at the International Lecoq School of Kuniaki Ida. Margherita Peluso joined in 2012 Make A Scene an Educational Theatre Company based in Australia and has performed in Commedia dell’Arte shows.Margherita is a resident actress at La Mama Theater in Australia and New York, where she has performed the well known “La Medea” and the monologue “Lo rape” by Franca Rame, a performance about violence against women. Among her most prominent works is the staging of the most famous works by Luigi Pirandello .
She settled in NYC for over two years where she collaborated with the playwright Mario Fratti in drafting theater criticism for the America Oggi newspaper and was invited with Mario Fratti’s solo Show L’Ungherese at the “Lower East Side Festival of the Arts” in New York. 

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Margherita’s acting is also accompanied by a therapeutic path linked to the holistic arts and anthropological research and observation in the field. This allowed her to study different rituals and traditions to translate them into art, stories and educational works. In particular, Margherita Peluso had been dedicated to the intercultural, holistic and therapeutic sector, to the community, to scenic dramaturgy and investigative theatre.

"With no object on stage, there is only Margherita with he body to tell the story and convey emotions... and the result is excellent."
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“Peluso sweeps her audience along with her with excellent performance skills and remarkable concentration… this could be a difficult notion to convey to an audiance but Peluso doest it with conviction, honesty and passion… Peluso’s characterization is captivating, her performance is raw and honest”
Theater people
“All the world’s experiences, on a stage she carries her audience on a journey through life, life after death, mental despair, physical delight, meditative sequences, cabaret breakouts, sweet sadness and ghoulish madness.”
Jill Sykes
“..a mystical collision of butoh and theatre entrance is a wonderfully expressive union of music and text, image and movement, bound together by irresistible logic of dreams.”
The age
“Incisiva, spontanea e dramatica e’ stata l’interpretazione di Margherita Peluso.”
Il globo
“Margherita Peluso in una rappresentazione magistrale”
Margherita Angelucci
“eccellente recitazione. caldi applausi…… brava – stunning ”
America Oggi
“Delivering rich performance is Margherita Peluso who played mme de Villafort and la Carconte”
Offoffline Brodway
“Margherita Peluso’s performance as a highly disturbed nun is riveting. she demonstrates a command of physical comedy rarely seen. ”
Toorak time
“Peluso’s performance is fiery emphasized by distended gestures, delivered with wild emotions ”
The age
“Most notably margherita peluso whose digression through insanity, convincingly portrayed a clash of pride, morals and social convention. ”
Same Same
“The film reveals a new great italian actress who now lives in new york….. new excellent opportunity to showcase the best of the italian talent on the stage of new york ”
America Oggi
“Such a delight to have Margherita Peluso at my deer park production studio. gracious and sweet is my best description of this talented actress.”
hug c. daly
“Promuovere l'italianità all'estero è importante. Grazie!”
anna calemme quattro
“Peluso sweeps her audience along with her with excellent performance skills and remarkable concentration… this could be a difficult notion to convey to an audiance but peluso doest it with conviction, honesty and passion… Peluso’s characterization is captivating, her performance is raw and honest”
Theater people
“Margherita Peluso keep the atmosphere wonderfully intense with interrogations and psychological pressure of the growing involvement of the public in the drama.”
Elf
“..con nessun oggetto in scena c’è solo margherita con il suo corpo a raccontare la storia e trasmettere emozioni… ed il risultato è eccellente. ”
Il Globo
“a new excellent actress who lives now in new york. new entry, good opportunity to show the best of the italian talent in new york”
Mario Fratti
“Divulgazione di cultura italiana, con un pizzico di amore!”
roberto galbiati
“Lo spettatore viene condotto in un mondo immaginario dove l’unico punto di riferimento, che ha con il reale, è rappresentato dall’esistenza materiale delle opere d’arte.”
Il plurale
“Lo spettacolo è andato molto bene – ci ha raccontato Margherita – enrico ed io abbiamo già fatto altri sketch insieme e siamo un’accoppiata che funziona, anche se cerchiamo di perfezionarci continuamente”
Gaia Lamperti
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