Originally from Treviso, she studied Visual and Performing Arts at the IUAV University of Venice. In 2006 she began to working with the Societas Raffaello Sanzio theater company founded from Romeo Castellucci and until 2020 Costa worked as an actress and artistic collaborator on most of the Cesena-based director's theatrical and operatic creations. At the same time she carries out her own artistic projects, developing since 2007 a kind of visual and poetic theater, nourished from a deep reflection around the role of images, their meaning and power on the spectator. From time to time author, director, performer and set designer, Silvia Costa is a protean artist who uses these different aesthetic fields to deepen her theatrical research. Her creations are regularly performed at major Italian and international festivals. From 2019 Costa starts to creating her own directions also for the world ofopera, in particular at the Stuttgart Staatsoper, Opera in Lille, Opera National de Lorraine, Philharmonie in Paris. Since 2020, he has been part of the ensemble artistique of the Comédie de Valence.