Gabriele Di Luca Born in Pesaro in 1981, Gabriele Di Luca is a playwright, screenwriter, actor, and director. Having graduated from the Accademia d’Arte Drammatica Nico Pepe in Udine in 2007, he founded the theater company Carrozzeria Orfeo, together with Massimiliano Setti and Luisa Supino, in 2008.  In June 2013 he won the SIAE Creativity Award 2013 for best national playwright. In the same year, he wrote Thanks for Vaselina, a very successful work thanks to which he and his theatrical company Carrozzeria Orfeo won the Premio Hystrio-Castel dei Mondi in June 2015. In the same year he wrote Animali da Bar (winner of the Premio Hystrio Twister 2016) and, in the following year, Cous Cous Klan (Premio Le Maschere per il Teatro 2019 for best Italian novelty) whose stage copyrights were acquired for a television project.

The film Thanks! is an adaptation of Thanks for Vaselina.  Released in Italian movie theaters in October 2019 and subsequently on Netflix, it was a finalist for Best Film Feature at the ReelHeART International Film Festival 2020 in Canada. In 2019 the stage rights to the same work were sold in Spain where the show was staged by Catalan director Sergi Belbel.

In July 2020 Miracoli Metropolitani, which he authored and co-directed, made its debut at the Naples Teatro Festival Italia.