Franco Perrelli is Full Professor of Performing Arts at the University of Bari, “Aldo Moro”. He is a specialist in Scandinavian and modern theatre. In 2009, he won the Pirandello Prize and, in 2014, the Strindbergspris of the Swedish Strindbergssällskap. His publications include La seconda creazione (2005), I maestri della ricerca teatrale(2007), Poetiche e teorie del teatro (2015), Le origini del teatro moderno(2016), On Ibsen and Strindberg (2019).