Son of a German mother and Italian father, Giovanni Morassutti is an actor, director, and cultural entrepreneur currently living in New York. He studied acting and directing since he was a teenager approaching the work of the realistic school first with Susan Strasberg, then as an auditor at the Actors Studio in New York, as a student of Salem Ludwig at the HB studio and then with John Strasberg with whom now works as an assistant and coordinator for his workshops in Berlin.

In America, Giovanni worked with Ellen Stewart founder of La Mama e.t.c.