Dear Friends,

Thank you for visiting GioiaDeCari.com, the home for my eclectic adventures as a speaker, singer and multidisciplinary artist! My WHY is to stir the soul and create compassion for ourselves and one another through my art. I consider artistic endeavor to be sacred.

I love creating experiences that foster understanding, kindness, a sense of community and a fresh perspective. I also love opening doors for people who love theater and performance and are also passionate about equality in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) and might not be involved in the arts in other ways.

I've been walking between worlds bridging art and science my whole life - I'm a hybrid and can't help it! Our Truth Values and Science/Music Commissioning Projects are emblematic of this. I am especially thrilled with Truth Values and everything that has happened with it.

Along the way, people have repeatedly asked me to consider writing a memoir about my experiences as a "recovering mathematician." The memoir is coming, as well as a related performance film/documentary.

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Warmly,

The passionately multifaceted Gioia De Cari is an actress, singer, playwright, and "recovering mathematician" who has made significant contributions in theater and classical music through her exploration of the synergy between science and the arts. 

Gioia's critically-acclaimed award-winning play Truth Values, a true-life story of her experiences as a woman in the male-dominated world of mathematics, has been presented at more than 50 venues across the United States and Canada, including the La Jolla Playhouse Potiker Theatre, the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, and the Ensemble Studio Theatre, among many others. 

Truth Values has been embraced nationally as a conversation catalyst on diversity, equity and inclusion in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics), having been presented with more than 75 expert panel discussions on this topic. A companion educational program to the play, Truth Values Community, was sponsored by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

An accomplished classical singer as well, Gioia has recorded two albums, Quiet Songs and Eve’s Diary, with her husband, classical guitarist John Olson, as the Olson/DeCari Duo. A particular focus of their work is expansion of the classical repertoire for soprano and guitar; they founded the Science Music Commissioning Project, which seeks to illuminate the human side of science through song. They have toured throughout the United States.

Gioia studied acting and playwriting with the late legendary teachers Wynn Handman and Milan Stitt, respectively. After graduating summa cum laude from the University of California, Berkeley, she earned a Master of Science degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Gioia is a proud member of Actors' Equity Association, SAG-AFTRA, and The Dramatists Guild of America.