Giulia Rumasuglia

Giulia Rumasuglia was born in Geneva to a Swiss mother and a Sicilian father. After studying French and Russian literature and spending several years in Germany, Scotland and Denmark, she trained in directing at La Manufacture, graduating in 2022. There she presented the show ‘Cassandre peut-être’ and wrote a thesis on silence.
Her artistic collaborations have taken her to the Schauspielhaus Zürich, where she worked with Herbert Fritsch, the Grand Théâtre de Genève with Luk Perceval, and the Théâtre Vidy-Lausanne with Katie Mitchell and Rimini Protokoll. In 2022, she began her collaboration with Stefan Kaegi/Caroline Barneaud as artistic assistant on Utopolis Lausanne, which she continued in 2023 and 2024 with ‘Paysages partagés’. At the same time, she works as an assistant to Manon Krüttli, Florence Minder, Anne Bisang and Selma Alaoui at POCHE/GVE, and to Jan Koslowski at the Neumarkt Theater in Zurich. She teaches at the Haute Ecole de Musique in Geneva. In April 2024, she directed ‘femme disparaît (versions)’ by Julia Haenni at POCHE /GVE. In November 2024, she presented the play “Hercule” based on ‘Hercule et les Ecuries d'Augias’ by Friedrich Dürrenmatt at the Théâtre Vidy-Lausanne and in March 2025 at the Comédie de Genève. From 2025, she will accompany Le Sommet, a play by Christoph Marthaler premiered at the Piccolo Teatro in Milan. In June 2025, she will present Julia Haenni's ‘la donna si cura (kills the party)’ at the LAC in Lugano as part of PRISMI, a showcase for contemporary Swiss dramaturgy. She is the recipient of the Göhner Scholarship for Artists in Training, the HES-SO Music and Performing Arts Award and the Leenaards Foundation's Prix Tremplin.
She lives between Geneva and Zurich.