Igor Horvat

Igor Horvat is an actor and director. He was born in Italian speaking Switzerland in a family with Croatian and Italian origins and moved his first steps on stage in high school. He obtained the first level Academic Diploma in Acting at the Civica Scuola di Teatro «Paolo Grassi» in Milan in 2000 and ever since his career brings him to alternate theater, radio, cinema and television.

In the approximately 50 theater shows to his credit he has worked with numerous important directors in the most renowned Italian theaters, such as e.g. the Piccolo Teatro in Milan, the Teatro Argentina in Rome, the Greek Theatre in Syracuse, the Teatro Carignano in Turin, the Teatro Metastasio in Prato, the Teatro Goldoni in Venice. He regularly collaborates with Swiss theaters such as the LAC Lugano Arte e Cultura and the Teatro Sociale in Bellinzona.

His own direction of Goldoni’s «The Coffee Shop» was produced by LAC Lugano in 2021, where in autumn 2024 his direction of Dürrenmatt’s «The Physicists» sees its debut.

In the field of musical and operatic theatre he has worked as an actor at the Teatro Regio in Turin, at La Scala in Milan and with the orchestral direction of Maestro Riccardo Muti at the Ravenna Festival.

In addition to his usual activity divided between Switzerland and Italy, he has also performed on tour in Russia, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Germany, Holland, Portugal, Spain, Senegal. He has also played roles, or parts of roles, in English, French, German and Romanian.

In cinema he appears in feature films of Swiss, Italian, Indian and Dutch production, and in several Swiss and Italian tv series. He takes part in more than 80 radio productions, both as an actor and as a director, as he regularly collaborates with Rete Due – RSI (Italian speaking Swiss public radio) in the production of radioplays, as well as with other productions in the radio adaptation of novels and the recording of audiobooks. In 2024 he gave his voice (in English) to the character of Piero Modigliani in the American-produced podcast «Pack One Bag» with Stanley Tucci.

 

Narrator in the following cities:

Lugano, Lac Lugano Arte e Cultura