Valerio Manisi, actor, author, stage director, musician, and comics artist, graduated from the Istituto d'Arte and then continued his studies in film animation at the Politecnico di Milano. In 2008 founded the Compagnia del Teatro JonicoSalentino, through which he reorganized the folk music group Pizzicati int'allù Core Canzoniere Jonico Salentino.