Enrico Bonavera is the Arlequin of the Piccolo Teatro di Milano – Teatro d’Europa.

A former apprentice of Ferruccio Soleri, he received training in Experimental theatre through collaboration with Teatro di Ricerca (E.Barba and J.Grotowski), and has for more than three decades maintained a successful acting career.

Between 1987 and1990, and again from 2000 until present, Enrico Bonavera has performed Brighella and Arlecchinoin Goldoni’s famous The Servant of Two Masters directed by Giorgio Strehler at the Piccolo Teatro di Milano and he has tourned the entire world with the play, including Europe, Russia, Usa, Canada, South America (Chile, Brazil, Ecuador, Argentina, Mexico) North Africa, (Algeria, Egypt) and in Asia (Japan, China, Korea, Khazakistan, Georgia). 

As an actor, he has worked with directors such as Giorgio Strehler, Jacques Lassalle, Maurizio Scaparro, Marco Sciaccaluga, Gianni Amelio, Carlo Battistoni, Carlo Boso, Patrice Kerbrat, Gernot Friedel, Jim Calder, Erich Hertnagl, 
As a coach he collaborates with the Accademia della Commedia dell’Arte of Piccolo Teatro di Milano directed by Ferruccio Soleri and the Shapkin Theatre School in Moscow, also with the at the HKPA in Hong Kong, the Summer Campus in Florence of the New York University, The Epydaurus Lyceum.

In 1996 Enrico Bonavera received the award for the best actor in supporting role best at Borgio Verezzi festival for his Arlecchino in C.Goldoni "I due gemelli veneziani" (Venetian Twins).

In 2007 he was honoured with the ‘ Golden Arlequin” award in Mantua, which had previously been bestowed on actors such Marcel Marceau, Dario Fo, Ferruccio Soleri,