Marco Belluzzi was born in Parma in 1961 and lives between Rome and Milan. He graduated with first-class honours in Scenography and Costume Design at NABA – Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti in Milan, where he studied under some of the most influential figures of Italian art, architecture and theatre, including Guido Ballo, Tito Varisco, Lamberto Puggelli, Luigi Veronesi, Gino Negri, Emilio Isgrò, Ljuba Popova, Carlo Mo, Emilio Tadini and Gianni Colombo.
 

His professional training began in the mid-1980s at the Teatro alla Scala ateliers in Milan, under the guidance of master craftsman Giorgio Cristini. During these years, he worked across a wide range of theatrical roles — from set design assistant to toolmaker, lighting and sound technician and stage director — developing a rigorous, hands-on understanding of production design rooted in craft, precision and problem-solving.
 

In 1987, he joined the production of Kamikaze, directed by Gabriele Salvatores, where he met production designer Gian Maurizio Fercioni. This encounter marked the beginning of a five-year collaboration, during which Marco worked as Fercioni’s sole assistant on opera and theatre productions presented in some of Europe’s most prestigious venues, including Lyon, Saint-Étienne, Aix-en-Provence, Nice, Strasbourg, Bremen, Lucerne and Bologna, as well as in leading Italian theatres such as Teatro Pier Lombardo (Franco Parenti), Teatro dell’Elfo, Teatro di Porta Romana and Sala Fontana. He collaborated with directors including Andrée Ruth Shammah, Gabriele Salvatores, Elio De Capitani and Angelo Longoni.
 

In the early 1990s, Marco Belluzzi began his independent career as a production designer and art director. Since then, he has developed an extensive body of work spanning feature films, television, advertising, fashion, music and live events, with more than 200 commercial productions alongside long-form cinematic and cultural projects. Throughout his career, he has consistently drawn on his theatrical background to bring narrative depth, structural clarity and visual coherence to contemporary production design.

Today, Marco continues to work across disciplines, shaping spaces where craft, story and image converge, and where production design becomes an essential narrative force.