A film and theatre director, Giorgio Ferrara was born in Rome. He started working as Assistant Director to Luca Ronconi and Luchino Visconti whom he worked with at length. For the big screen he has directed: Un cuore semplice, screenplay by Cesare Zavattini, based upon a short story by Gustave Flaubert, and winner of a David of Donatello, and the prizes Premio Rizzoli, Premio Saint Vincent and Nastro d’argento; Caccia alla Vedova, screenplay by Enrico Medioli from the Vedova scaltra by Goldoni; Tosca e altre due by Franca Valeri, screenplay by Enrico Medioli.

For the theater he has staged several plays by classical and contemporary playwrights as Pirandello, Strindberg, Goldoni Carlo Bernari, Francesca Sanvitale, Enzo Siciliano, Franca Valeri, Cesare Musatti, Natalia Ginzburg and Corrado Augias.

For the Festival dei Due Mondi di Spoleto in 2010 he staged the opera Gogo no eiko by Hanz Werner Henze and in 2011 the comic opera Amelia al ballo by Gian Carlo Menotti. In 2012 he staged Madama Butterfly by Giacomo Puccini at the Teatro dell’Opera in Rome. He was the Director of the Italian Cultural Institute of Paris and President of the Forum des Instituts Cultules étrangers in Paris (2003-2007). From 2008 to 2012 he was the President and Artistic Director of the Foundation Festival dei Due Mondi di Spoleto. Currently he holds the position of Artistic Director.