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 including 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 the pantomime Beauty and the Beast. He performed in many highlights 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 advertisements.

[edit] 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 House) for 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 the international acclaimed writer Francis Ebejer.

As a script-writer, De Battista 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Celloli fic-Cellel (Celled Cells), Ma' l-Ahhar Tokki which is to be staged in the Malta DramaFest 2005, and three unpublished film synopses.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).

[edit] 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). He is also 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 and has one child.