Attilio Rigotti
Visiting Assistant Professor
Attilio Rigotti is a Chilean performer, theatremaker, technology artist and videogame designer. His work explores the intersection between game design, interactive technologies, and live performance, creating unique, user-centered experiences where audiences can fundamentally shape and transform a performance as it happens. He has performed, trained, taught, and developed productions around the world, including countries such as Poland, China, Egypt, Lebanon, India, Indonesia, Japan, Italy, Cuba, the U.A.E. and the U.S. He was an Associate Artist with Theater Mitu, performing on the international tour of Juárez, their sold-out run of Death of a Salesman at BAM, and co-creating, performing and designing their productions of Hamlet/UR-Hamlet and Remnant.
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Along with Orsolya Szanthó, Attilio co-founded the company GLITCH, focused on new forms of storytelling that seamlessly combine digital and physical mediums with new forms of storytelling. The company’s designs have been featured in productions such as Macbeth (Broadway, 2022) and White Girl in Danger (Off-Broadway), earning nominations for Outstanding Projection Design at the Drama Desk and Helen Hayes Awards for the latter. Their graphics and video work has also been a part of the promotional campaigns of Broadway shows like The Sound Inside, The Great Society, Company, Plaza Suite, The Minutes, American Buffalo and Girl from the North Country. Attilio has designed for Kaki King, Martha Redbone, City Lyric Opera, Phoenix Theatre Ensemble, theatreC, LGPAC, NYU Tisch, Long Island University, Toronto Fringe, and Gamiotics Studios, and has been recognized by the New York Times, Vulture, American Theatre Magazine and the Broadway World Awards. Internationally, he directed and designed the acclaimed production of Matilda: The Musical in the Dominican Republic, which was hailed “as the greatest theatrical feat of 2024 and recent years”. He was a NYTW 2050 Artist Fellow for 2022-2023, a Colt Couer Resident Artist for 2025-2026 and has been awarded the NY City Artists Corps Grant, the Wasserman Scholar Award, and the CYSTEM Award.