Francesco Cocco is a set and performance designer + dance dramaturg. 

He is particularly interested in mechanisms of dramaturgical creation that are partially allowed to reveal themselves onstage.

Graduated in visual and performing arts at IUAV University + Master in Set Design at the Venice Academy of fine arts.

He designed the set for the operas: Il matrimonio segreto by D. Cimarosa [2016, Dutch National Opera], Gina by F. Cilea [2017, Fondazione Teatro la Fenice]  Il sogno di Scipione by W.A. Mozart [2019, Fondazione Teatro la Fenice].

He worked on research projects of performance design in collaboration with Elena Zamparutti exploring visual playfulness, audience participation and fragmented open dramaturgy [PUSH, PUSH BABY! at Prague Quadrennial 2019. WALK! with terrafine, Trieste 2020. INTERSPACE WALKING with Dance Well at Fabbrica Alta, Schio 2021].

He collaborated as dramaturg with the choreographers Matteo Carvone, Silvia Galletti, Andrea Scarfì. In 2022 he is among the selected dramaturgs for the Micro and Macro Dramaturgies in Dance European research and training program. 

He regularly collaborates to the production of the Biennale College Danza program in Venice.