Paolo Magelli was born to Prato. Not yet 20 years old, he joined to the Metastasio Theater Studio and became its director. He then collaborated with Giorgio Strehler in writing the text on the famous reform of Tuscan and Italian theater, both of which remained unimplemented. He left Prato in the mid-1970s. In 1974 he began to Belgrade a work that would lead him to to collaborate with all the major centers of the former Yugoslavia, earning him numerous awards.

He worked for the Théâtre de l'Est parisien (now Théâtre national de la Colline) and began a collaboration with the French theater that is still active today. Magelli's shows began to touring Europe. In 1985 he left Belgrade and moved to to Zagreb, where he became artistic director of the ZKM Theater. In 1989 he is invited to to work permanently as director to Wuppertal, at Pina Bausch's Wuppertaler Bühnen theater, where he will remain until 1995, producing a dozen shows there. The onset of war surprises him to Zagreb while working to _Faith, Hope, Charity _by Horváth, which will be performed to noon to due to the blackout. He soon came into conflict with the Tudjman regime and was excluded from Croatian theater life. In 1995 (after three years of banishment) he decides to stage to Zagreb again, financing it himself, The Cherry Orchard, in the half-destroyed foyer of the Gavella Theater. His shows resume to touring Europe and the world. He wins with _Three Sisters _again the grand prize at the Sarajevo Festival, the first after the war. In 2000 he works on the anniversary of the Crusades with the Palestinian National Theater in Ramallah and with Israeli ones in Tel Aviv, Akko and Haifa. It will be the last meeting between Palestinian and Israeli actors. He is followed in the project by Goran Bregović with his entire orchestra. In 2003 he moved from Vienna to Dresden, where he will work permanently until 2009 at the Staatschauspiel. In 2005 the Metastasio Theater invites him with one of his old Zagreb shows, A Month in the Country, and for the first time he returns to Prato where a project called "Cantiere disperazione" is born. In 2010 he became director of the Teatro Metastasio Stabile della Toscana. He continues to collaborating as a director with theaters in Serbia, Croatia and Germany. Paolo Magelli has staged more than 140 plays in various theaters around the world.

Active from over twenty years as a painter, he approached set design thanks to to Paolo Magelli, who chose him for many of his shows in Central European and South American countries. Among his main and most recent achievements for the theater: _Family Games _by Biljana Srbljanovic, The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov, _The Brothers Karamazov _by Fyodor Michailovič Dostoevsky, Island by Tommaso Santi, _Hotel Belvedere _by Ödön von Horváth, _Na Dnu _by Maksim Gorki.

Among his major exhibitions: I_talian Genius Now_, produced by the Center for Contemporary Art Luigi Pecci and held between 2007 and 2009 in Hanoi, Singapore, New Delhi and Rome, and Gerhard Richter and the Fading of the Image in Contemporary Art, organized from CCCS at Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, in 2010. He then exhibited at the 2011 Monza Biennale, the 54th Venice Biennale, Tuscany Pavilion, and the Centre for Contemporary Art Luigi Pecci, Prato, 2011.

Slovenian costume designer Leo Kulaš was born in Croatia. While still a student at the Academy of Applied Arts in Belgrade, he collaborated with director Paolo Magelli foropera _Nabucco _at the 1983 Split Festival. He makes costumes for 150 performances in the theaters of the former Yugoslavia and for numerous theaters in Germany, Austria, and Italy, gaining recognition and major awards. He also works as a costume designer in dance, in Slovenia, Croatia, at Ballet Zurich, in Antwerp and to Bucharest, collaborating with choreographers Edward Clug and Irek Mukhamedov, among others. His activity extends toopera theaters in Ljubljana, Linz, Maribor, Hannover and Sofia. He also works to a dozen Slovenian films and on some TV productions. In Slovenia he is awarded the Preseren, the highest award in the field of culture. He has worked with important directors such as Tomaz Pandur, Eduard Miller, Roberto Ciulli, Ernst M. Binder, Matthias Davis, François M-Pesanti, Diego de Brea, Janusz Kica, Plamen Kartaloff. from years he works for Theater an der Ruhr, Thalia Theater in Hamburg, Staatsschauspiel in Dresden, and Teatro Metastasio Stabile della Toscana in Prato, for which he created the costumes for Animali nella nebbia, Giochi di famiglia, Il giardino dei ciliegi, and Hotel Belvedere.