Gianfrancesco Guarnieri

Gianfrancesco Sigfrido Benedetto Marinenghi de Guarnieri (August 6, 1934 – July 22, 2006) was an Italian–Brazilian actor, lyricist, poet and playwright. He was a key participant in the Arena Theater of São Paulo, his most important work was "They Don't Wear Black Tie". His parents, the maestro Edoardo Guarnieri and the Harpist Elsa Martineghi, decided to move to Brazil in 1936, finding a new home in Rio de Janeiro. In the early 1950s they moved to São Paulo.

A student leader since his teenage years, Guarnieri began to do amateur theater with Oduvaldo Vianna Filho (Vianinha) and a group of students from São Paulo. In 1955 they created the "Paulista Student Theater" (Teatro Paulista do Estudante), with guidance from Ruggero Jacobbi. In the following year that theater group joined with The Arena Theater, founded and directed by José Renato

Career Theater His first play was "They Don't Wear Black Tie" (Eles não usam black tie), first performed in 1958 in the Arena Theater

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