Born in 1951 to Reus, he graduated in Philology from the University of Barcelona and in Arte Dramàtica from the Institut del Teatre. Began very young his activity as a director of drama and opera. Founder of Teatre Lliure to Barcelona, he leads as director several theatrical institutions. In 1983 he took over as director of the National Theater of Spain. From 1990 to 1996 he directs the Odeon - Theatre d'Europe to Paris. In 1995-96 he directed the Theatre Section of the Venice Biennale in the Centennial edition. As a director of prose, opera and dance, he has produced more than one hundred shows in various cities including Barcelona, Madrid, Paris, Buenos Aires, New York, Milan, Salzburg, Pesaro, Venice, Florence, Naples, San Pietroburgo, Bilbao, by authors such as Sophocles, Shakespeare, Goldoni, Čechov, Koltès, Valle Inclán, Genet and especially Federico García Lorca whose El Publico at the Piccolo Teatro in Milan and Commedia senza titolo to Madrid and Paris, were staged as world premieres. Among opera productions, he has staged Mozart, Verdi, Rossini, Puccini, Britten, Wagner, Dalla Piccola, Berio and others. He has received awards and honors throughout his career, including Officier des Arts et des lettres and Chevalier de la Legión d'Honneur of the French Republic and the National Theatre and Dance Award and Medal of Fine Arts in Spain.

Immediately after completing her artistic training to Munich, in 1962 she worked as an apprentice at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg with Gustav Gründgens. From 1966 she joined to the company of the Zurich Theater as first actress. In 1973 she was chosen from Giorgio Strehler for the role of Queen Margaret in The Mighty Game at the Salzburg Festival. She became first actress at the Burgtheater in Vienna and continued her collaboration with Strehler by acting in the Trilogia della Villeggiatura and I giganti della montagna. Since 1981 she has treaded numerous Italian stages, including that of the Piccolo Teatro in Milan and, guided from Strehler, she has starred in many shows both in Italy and abroad, including the dual role of Shen Te/Shui Ta in Brecht's The Good Soul of Sezuan, a particularly acclaimed show to internationally. Andrea Jonasson has received numerous awards and honors throughout her career, including the Golden Camera, the Cross of Honor for Science and Art, the Nestroy Theatre Prize for Best Actress and the prestigious Italian Awards Silver Mask, the Elenora Duse Prize, the Pirandello Prize, the Europa Prize and the honorary rank of Grande Ufficiale from the Order of Merit of the President of the Italian Republic.

After graduating from the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, she participates as a leading role to comedies and television dramas, while in theater she collaborates with important private companies including Bosetti, Falk, De Lullo, Valli, Adani, Benassi, and Calindri. She began at a very young age a long collaboration with the Piccolo Teatro in Milan and acted, directed from Giorgio Strehler, in prestigious plays including Harlequin servant of two masters, The Egoist, Life of Galileo, L'opera from three soldi, The Cherry Orchard, The Balconies, The Widower's Houses, Shakespeare's The Tempest, Happy Days, Elvira or the Theatrical Passion, Faust - fragments part I and II, The Fields, The Giants of the Mountain, Mother Courage of Sarajevo. Also at the Piccolo she was directed from Puecher and Battistoni. In 1984 she was at the Spoleto Festival opposite Lina Volonghi in Buonanotte mamma (Pulitzer-winning text), directed by Battistoni. She was the female lead in the new edition of Temporale, a historic Strehlerian direction revived in 2005 from Enrico D'Amato, for the Piccolo Teatro. Also at Piccolo, Luca Ronconi directed her in Ventaglio (2007), Giuseppina Carutti in Volgar'Eloquio - Milano città dei dialetti (2009) alongside to Piero Mazzarella. Lluís Pasqual directed her in Donna Rosita nubile, produced by Piccolo in 2010. In addition to Piccolo productions, she is directed from Cobelli, Lievi, Tizzi, Sarti, Tanant, Tolcachir, Gleijeses**.** In cinema she is directed from Luca Manfredi, Marco Tullio Giordana, Nanni Moretti and from Paolo Genovese, while on television she took part to Resurrezione, directed by Paolo and Vittorio Taviani, in the reading for the 2003 Via Crucis broadcast live on television from the Colosseum in Rome, and was among the performers in Maria Montessori, a miniseries directed from Gianluca Maria Tavarelli. Her numerous awards include the David di Donatello, a Ciak d'Oro and a Nastro d'Argento Speciale, an Ambrogino d'oro, Premio Duse, two IDI Awards, Salvo Randone Award, San Genesio-Sipari Award, Flaiano Award, Simoni Lifetime Achievement Award, Olimpici del Teatro. He has twice won the Le Maschere del Teatro award. He is an honorary member of the Friends of La Scala and Grand Officer of Merit of the Italian Republic.

Pamela Villoresi, to only 14 years old, makes her debut as a leading lady in Schwarz's Re Nudo directed from Paolo Magelli, while to 17 she shoots the Marco Visconti that makes her famous to the general public. She landed at the Piccolo Teatro in Milan from Giorgio Strehler (her theatrical father) participated with Jack Lang in the founding of the Union of European Theaters. She has acted in more than sixty shows, including five with Strehler, and then with Nino Manfredi, Vittorio Gassman, Mario Missiroli, Giancarlo Cobelli and Maurizio Panici, alongside the greatest Italian actors. She has specialized in the interpretation of poetry (she has twenty-three poetry recitals in her repertoire) and has been the narrator in five melologues. She has commissioned many new plays, all of which have since been staged and some published in Italian and English. She has directed twenty-eight plays herself. She has worked in thirty-six films, with such great masters as Jancso, Bellocchio, the Taviani Brothers, Ferrara, Placido, and Sorrentino in La Grande Bellezza, 2014 Academy Award winner. He made eight television scripts with Majano, Mario Ferrero and Nocita. She hosted the program Milleunadonna. She has taught acting and poetry to Prato, Reggio Calabria, Lugano, Guastalla and Orbetello. She has been artistic director of four festivals: Ville Tuscolane, Festival dei Mondi, Arie di Mare, Divinamente Roma and Divinamente New York.She has been on the board of directors of the Accademia d'Arte Drammatica Silvio D'Amico, the Met Teatro Stabile della Toscana and the Teatro Argentina Stabile in Rome. She designed and implemented, to Prato for the University of Florence, the first PROGEAS university course for the organizational and promotional professions of the Performing Arts. He has won numerous awards including two Maschere d'Oro, two Grolle d'Oro, two Ubu Awards, one for Lifetime Achievement and one for Peace together with to Rugova and the Patriarch of Jerusalem, and the Vatican's Gold Medal among the one hundred artists in the world who foster dialogue with Spirituality.

Originally from Capua, she graduated from the School directed from Giorgio Strehler at the Piccolo Teatro in Milan. While still a student, she won the Hystrio Prize for vocation. She worked in theater with directors and actors such as Strehler(Faust, Harlequin, Mother Courage), Ronconi(Infinities ,Prometheus, Bacchae, Frogs), De Capitani and Bruni, Servillo, Luconi, Mauri, Beier, Warlikowskj, Ruth Shammah, Gleijeses, Nichetti, De Bei, De Fusco, Placido, Ranieri, Guarnieri, Branciaroli, Popolizio, Soleri, Marchini, Sastri and many others bringing to the stage mainly Shakespeare, Brecht, Chekhov, Goldoni, De Filippo, as well as contemporary theater. She was a finalist as best supporting actress for the role of Widow Shin in The Good Soul of Sezuan (with Melato) at the Maschere del Teatro Italiano as supporting actress for the role of Mrs. Peachum (with Ranieri and Sastri), and as leading actress for the role of Ida in Week End, by Ruccello. In 2021 she was again a finalist in the Maschere del Teatro Italiano as supporting actress for the role in Kaufman's The Seed of Violence - The Laramie Project, directed by Bruni and Frongia. Recent performances include L'Opera from three money again as Mrs. Peachum (directed by Michieletto, with Servillo and Rossy De Palma). In films with Allen, Verdone, Gallo, Russo, Barczy. On TV with Izzo-Tognazzi, Elia, Aristarco, Ferilli (among recent appearances: Mina September, Mare Fuori 1 and 2). In 2021 he is a finalist for the Le Maschere del Teatro Italiano Award.