Umberto Simonetta | |
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![]() Simonetta in 1984 | |
Born |
Milan, Italy | 4 April 1926
Died | 25 August 1998 Milan, Italy | (aged 72)
Occupation(s) | Playwright, writer, lyricist |
Umberto Simonetta (4 April 1926 – 25 August 1998) was an Italian playwright, writer and lyricist. He was described as "an unclassifiable artist" and "a wanderer between different genres". [1]
Born in Milan, Simonetta grew up in Switzerland where his father had been forced to move as an anti-fascist. [1]
He started his career working in couple with Guglielmo Zucconi as a radio writer and a playwright. [1] [2] He wrote several novels, some of them adapted into films such as Normal Young Man by Dino Risi and I viaggiatori della sera by Ugo Tognazzi. [3] He directed the Teatro Gerolamo in Milan from 1979 until its close in 1983. [1] [2] As a lyricist, he often collaborated with Giorgio Gaber. [1] [2]
In his later years Simonetta collaborated with the newspaper Il Giornale as a theatrical critic and was one of the screenwriters of the sitcom Nonno Felice. [2] He died of tumor. [1]