Giorgia Valenti
This is a Vanity Bath

Giorgia Valenti is an Italian actress and producer bouncing between New York and Italy who has been training in dancing and singing since she was very young. Most of her theatre and producing work involves the company she co-founded in 2019: Et Alia Theater, which provides performance programming and artistic opportunities that welcome, support, and showcase international women artists in New York. Giorgia graduated with Honours from New York University, Tisch School of the Arts with a Major in Drama and a Minor in Dance. Part of her artistic mission is to build cultural bridges by making art travel around the world. For this reason, she has been co-producing the Italy on Screen Today New York Film Festival with Loredana Commonara and working alongside Valeria Orani in the Italian American Playwrights Project.

Giorgia has had the gift of leading a multicultural life, moving from Italy to India at 10, then to NYC at 17, and traveling across South America and Europe. As an immigrant artist without a permanent home, she embraces each new environment she throws herself into, finding community, empathy, and herself, along the way. The cultural bridges she creates connect her to others, absorb new stories and inspire her art.

About her residency project, and in her own words: “Inspired by the Carbon Bathtub analogy by Dr. John Sterman, this performance art piece is a parallel between the over emission of greenhouse gasses in an Earth with not enough carbon sinks, and a woman bathing, eventually drowning, in planet-consuming vanity habits. Will the audience save her? My father’s move to India to establish a textile factory had a profound impact on this project. As he expanded his business across Asia, his awareness of the fashion industry’s environmental impact grew. He taught me the Carbon Bathtub Analogy: greenhouse gas emissions overflow like a running tap against Earth’s insufficient carbon sinks, resembling an overflowing bathtub. My project connects this analogy to unsustainable human vanity habits, which threaten to ‘drown’ us.”