Ivan De Battista
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Ivan De Battista (September 13, 1977) is a Maltese film and theatre actor. He has been involved in the theatre and musical scene since he was six. His early theatre performances were held at the De Porres Theatre, situated in Sliema with the Young Deporrians. As an actor, Ivan performed many major roles in productions with Curtain Raiser Theatre Troupe, Atturi Salesjani, Bronk Productions, Kumpanija Teatrali Irtokki, Kumpanija Teatru Rjal and Talenti of which some of them are "Wicc imb’ Wicc" "Face 2 Face", "Divorzju bi Prova", "Divorce by Trial", "Goldoni’s La Bottega del Cafe", "King Lear", Agatha Christie’s masterpiece "The Mousetrap", "And then there were none..." and "Beauty and the Beast", the pantomime. He performed in many highlight of the musicals as a singer in which he interpreted roles in Moulin Rouge, Copacabana, Les Miserables, Joseph and many others. He also interpreted several roles in local TV dramatic films and sitcoms and many adverts.
Work
As a director and co-founder of Imaginarts Entertainment Productions, he directed four short films, "L-Ittra" - "The Letter" (2002), "Dilemma" (2003), "Is-Siggu tar-Roti", "The Wheelchair" (2004) and "Self Flattery" (2005) - which both won third Place in Best Production at the National MACC Awards Film Festival. Dilemma won a High Merit Award. He also wrote the original theme score for L-Ittra. He also directed ‘L-Ahhar Cena’ The Last Supper for the Gzira Pageant Group 2002AD, John Drinkwater's masterpiece 'IX-Xewwiex minn Nazaret' A Man's Housefor Atturi Salesjani, co-directed the psychological drama ‘Il-Bniedem li ma Kienx’ The Man that never was! and lately he directed 'Il-Hadd fuq il-Bejt' Sunday on the roof, written by international acclaimed writer, Francis Ebejer. As a script-writer, Ivan wrote the futuristic social-drama ‘Celloli fic-Cellel’ Celled Cells, ‘Ma' l-Ahhar Tokki’ which is to be staged in the Malta DramaFest 2005 and three unpublished film synopses. Besides, in 1999, he published his first poetry book ‘Irwiefen’ Hurricanes.
Present
He is currently the President of the Ghaqda Letterarja Maltija - Society of Maltese Literature and Honorary Treasurer of the European Council of Artists (Malta). Besides, he is a member of the Ghaqda Poeti Maltin and International Arts & Artists.
Recently, he has achieved ATCL in Drama from the Trinity College of London.
He is married to Simone De Battista (2000) and has one child, Ryan Mark De Battista.