WORKSHOP
24 Feb 2021
agente Debbie Bibo Agency
Born in Los Angeles to a spirited Japanese mom and an unconventional American Jewish dad, I grew up in a sleepy suburb of Northern California, now the hub of the Silicon Valley. After earning a degree in Political Science at the University of California in San Diego, and working at a language school in San Francisco, I moved to Italy to teach English in 1992. While carrying on with my teaching, I enrolled in an invaluable three-year photography program at the Istituto Riccardo Bauer in Milan. My background in photography and the visual arts landed me my first job in publishing, working for the contemporary art publisher Charta, where I learned the ABCs of bookmaking and bookselling. I was fortunate to have had the opportunity to work with artists such as Marina Abramovic and Shirin Neshat. I moved on to work for the art publisher Skira, managing their international sales and distribution, and then for 5 Continents Editions where, among other things, I edited a series of books on design, co-published with the Museum of Modern Art of New York. After twelve years of publishing and two years of project management for a design studio, I founded my Agency in 2011. When asked what makes a good agent, my one-word reply is: vision.
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Francesca Cavallo, nata nel 1982 a Taranto, è autrice e regista teatrale. Esperta di innovazione sociale, ha fondato 'Sferracavalli', festival internazionale di immaginazione sostenibile. Nel 2011 ha fondato "Timbuktu Labs" con Elena Favilli. Sempre con Favilli è coautrice del libro "Storie della buonanotte per bambine ribelli" (2017), un successo nato da una semplice idea: le bambine si sono stancate delle classiche storie di principesse, castelli in fiamme e orribili mostri: vogliono storie diverse, uniche ma soprattutto vere. Così sono nate le nuove storie della buonanotte: sessanta illustratrici da tutto il mondo che raccontano le vere storie di eroine dei nostri giorni spaziando da Rita Levi Montalcini a Frida Kahlo, da Margherita Hack a Michelle Obama, sempre con una coinvolgente leggerezza e una sfumatura di vera ammirazione.
Fonda la casa editrice Undercats nel 2018.