Biography
Armando Di Lillo is an award-winning director, actor and published writer. He has worked with international actors, directors, writers and choreographers.
Among Armando's successes is the short film Silenzi (2019), which won the Best Emerging Actress Award and appeared on various finalist shortlists in festivals around the world. His earlier short film Una Donna (A Woman's Story, 2018) won the Best Opera Prima Award.
His most recent short project, My King, will appear at the film festivals in 2020.
He has recently appeared at the 2019 Edinburgh Fringe Festival in the play Walls and Bridges alongside an international cast.
Armando’s career began at age nine, when he starred in an adaptation of Filumena Marturano by dramatist Eduardo De Filippo.
Armando wrote his first film script at the age of eleven: Un Salto Nel Passato. This short film, which sees Armando also as lead actor, was screened at the 2003 Giffoni Festival in Italy, hosted by the acclaimed actor Silvio Muccino.
In 2014, he worked on the set of the movie Mia Madre by Nanni Moretti. In the same year, he participated in the Italian edition of the travelling theater-dance performance Human Loops directed by Spanish choreographer Meritxell Campos Olivé.
With his first novel Quello che non sai (The things you don't know), he ranked second to the International Literature Competition La Pulce Letteraria (Potenza, Italy). The following year, the book publisher Eracle Edizioni published his second novel: La Tua Colpa (Your Fault).
In 2016, Armando founded the Acting Center School in Rome and later, TAG-The Acting Group, a studio academy focused on Acting for Camera. In 2020, Armando founded the Armando Di Lillo Acting Studio, a new professional acting studio dedicated to Practical Aesthetics technique.
Since 2018, Armando also has worked as a casting assistant for several TV series with national distribution, and for international commercials. He has also worked as a Logger on various productions in Italy since 2013.
Armando trained at Acting Coach Scotland in Glasgow, where he was awarded a Diploma in Acting for Stage & Screen.
His third novel, La Gabbia, was published in 2019.
Among Armando's successes is the short film Silenzi (2019), which won the Best Emerging Actress Award and appeared on various finalist shortlists in festivals around the world. His earlier short film Una Donna (A Woman's Story, 2018) won the Best Opera Prima Award.
His most recent short project, My King, will appear at the film festivals in 2020.
He has recently appeared at the 2019 Edinburgh Fringe Festival in the play Walls and Bridges alongside an international cast.
Armando’s career began at age nine, when he starred in an adaptation of Filumena Marturano by dramatist Eduardo De Filippo.
Armando wrote his first film script at the age of eleven: Un Salto Nel Passato. This short film, which sees Armando also as lead actor, was screened at the 2003 Giffoni Festival in Italy, hosted by the acclaimed actor Silvio Muccino.
In 2014, he worked on the set of the movie Mia Madre by Nanni Moretti. In the same year, he participated in the Italian edition of the travelling theater-dance performance Human Loops directed by Spanish choreographer Meritxell Campos Olivé.
With his first novel Quello che non sai (The things you don't know), he ranked second to the International Literature Competition La Pulce Letteraria (Potenza, Italy). The following year, the book publisher Eracle Edizioni published his second novel: La Tua Colpa (Your Fault).
In 2016, Armando founded the Acting Center School in Rome and later, TAG-The Acting Group, a studio academy focused on Acting for Camera. In 2020, Armando founded the Armando Di Lillo Acting Studio, a new professional acting studio dedicated to Practical Aesthetics technique.
Since 2018, Armando also has worked as a casting assistant for several TV series with national distribution, and for international commercials. He has also worked as a Logger on various productions in Italy since 2013.
Armando trained at Acting Coach Scotland in Glasgow, where he was awarded a Diploma in Acting for Stage & Screen.
His third novel, La Gabbia, was published in 2019.
