Il Piccolo Coro dell'Antoniano & Friends

Simona Rodano is an award-winning Italian actress, singer, producer, and educator who has dedicated more than twenty years to connecting the performing arts with language and education.

With a professional career spanning television, theatre, music, and educational entertainment, Rodano has performed internationally and has been featured in major media including The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. In 2006, she began bringing her innovative approach to language learning into American schools, using music, theatre, storytelling, and performance to inspire children to discover languages and cultures.

She founded Incanto Productions in 2008, developing multilingual theatrical productions and educational programs presented in schools and cultural institutions throughout the United States. Known to generations of students as “The Italian Fairy,” Rodano's work has reached more than 190.000 children since 2006.

Rodano holds a Master of Science in Biology from the University of Turin and a Master’s degree in Curriculum and Instruction with a focus in Theatre Pedagogy, combining her academic background with decades of professional experience on stage and in the classroom.

She is the creator and producer of “Generations of Voices”, bringing together young voices from Italy and the United States and, for the first time in America, the internationally celebrated Piccolo Coro dell’Antoniano.

Her work is guided by a simple belief: the arts and languages can educate, connect cultures, and help new generations see the world through one another’s eyes.

Global EduLanguage Foundation

Founded by Simona Rodano in 2023, the Global EduLanguage Foundation was created from a vision developed through nearly two decades of working with children, educators, languages, and the performing arts.

The Foundation's mission is to foster language learning, encourage appreciation of our multicultural and multilingual world, and promote peace through education and cultural exchange.

Building upon Rodano's extensive experience bringing arts-integrated language programs to young people, Global EduLanguage creates opportunities for children and educators to experience languages not simply as academic subjects, but as bridges between people and cultures. Through educational programs, live performances, school initiatives, workshops, international collaborations, and professional development, the Foundation seeks to make language and cultural learning engaging, accessible, and meaningful.