Who won the 2025 Ubu Awards? The awards ceremony took place on 15 December at the Teatro Arena del Sole in Bologna. The evening is hosted by Gioia Salvatori and Lorenzo Pavolini, and curated by the Vicoquartomazzini company (Ubu Award 2024 for Best Show together with Fanny&Alexander). Here are all the names of the artists and shows most voted by the jurors, with links to our reviews.
All three finalists
PREMIUM NOW 2025
all the names of the projects of the awarded artists.
THEATER SHOW
• A place of safety. Journey to the central Mediterranean (conceived by Kepler-452; direction and dramaturgy by Enrico Baraldi and Nicola Borghesi) [recensione]
DANCE SHOW
• Asteroid (by Marco D’Agostin) [recensione]
REGIA
• Massimiliano Civica (Chapter Two) [recensione]
ACTRESS/PERFORMER
• Valentina Picello (Anna Cappelli [recensione] and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof [recensione])
ACTOR OR PERFORMER
• Davide Enia (Self-portrait) [recensione]
ACTOR OR PERFORMER UNDER 35
• Pietro Giannini
ACTRESS OR PERFORMER UNDER 35
• Francesca Astrai
SCENOGRAPHY
• Daniele Spanò (The Vegetarian)[recensione[recensione
COSTUMI
• Antonio Marras (Amadeus)
DISEGNO LUCI
Ex aequo
• Giulia Pastore (La vegetariana) [recensione]
• Alessandro Serra (Tragùdia. The song of Oedipus) [recensione]
SOUND PROJECT OR ORIGINAL MUSIC
• Vanni Crociani, Giuseppe Franchellucci, Massimo Marches, Mario Perrotta (In the blue. Having so much happiness in your arms)
NEW ITALIAN TEXT OR DRAMATURGICAL WRITING (staged by Italian companies or artists)
NON-ORIGINAL TEXT (rewrites and/or adaptations)
• Altri Libertini (adaptation by Licia Lanera from the novel by Pier Vittorio Tondelli) [recensione]
NEW FOREIGN TEXT OR DRAMATURGICAL WRITING (staged by Italian companies or artists)
• Things I Know to Be True (by Andrew Bovell) [recensione]
FOREIGN SHOW PRESENTED IN ITALY
• Changes (di Thomas Ostermeier)
SPECIAL PRIZES
– Theater Acropolis
– Mimmo Borrelli
– Glass Theatres
– Theater of the Winds
– Movement
LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Pippo Delbono [leggi l’intervista di Rodolfo Di Giammarco]
FRANCO QUADRI AWARD
Roberta Carlotto and Kae Tempest
