I moved to the United States from Europe five years ago, I work as artistic director of a young theatre company for a public school in Vancouver,WA, I teach workshops and classes on traditional Italian theatre techniques and European cinema, and I am part of a multidisciplinary art collective that's currently producing puppet videos. I immensely enjoy having conversations over a coffee and a good meal (I cook and love doing it for other people), riding bikes, climbing, hiking, gardening, going to the movies at the Hollywood Theatre and playing music with my friends in town.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Coming back to this website after a couple years of radio silence. I am very busy working on projects all the time so I'm not home a whole lot, but my place is in a great location in Portland, so I want to share it with all the great people that are moving here or passing through town and make sure they can chill properly!

Interests

Performance arts, puppetry, music, stop-motion animation, illustration, graphic novels.

• arts
• books
• performing arts
• illustrations
• dining
• cooking
• coffee
• gardening
• movies
• board games
• music
• folk music
• cycling
• hiking
• rock climbing
• animation

Music, Movies, and Books

Some examples,

Movies: 2001 Space Odissey, Freaks, Persona, Stalker, Ran, Fantasia, La Strada, Roman de Renard.

Music: The Residents, Pete Seeger, Franco Battiato, Fabrizio De Andre', Tuneyards, Dengue Fever, Miles Davis, Erroll Garner, Igor Stravinsky.

Books: The Tin Drum, Codex Seraphinianus, Faust, Flatland, Never Ending Story, Ask The Dust, 1984.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

I was a pelican's best friend.

Teach, Learn, Share

It's mostly what I do.

What I Can Share with Hosts

My food, obscure movies and animations from Europe, board games, books, my bike, Italian folk music.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Lebanon, Netherlands, Spain, United Kingdom, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Czech Republic, Italy, United States