Born and raised in Rome, after graduating in Art History with "summa cum laude" at the University of Florence, Marco starts working at Tirelli Costumes in Rome where he assists some some of the best costume designers in the field, among them Academy Award winner Piero Tosi, Pier Luigi Pizzi, Hugo De Ana, Carlo Poggioli and Academy Award winner Milena Canonero.

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He moves to New York City where he starts working as an associate with Suzy Benzinger on Woody Allen’s Whatever Works, Blue Jasmine, Irrational Man, Café Society, Crisis in Six Scenes, Wonder Wheel, Rainy Days in New York. 

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He collaborates with Milena Canonero on Francis Ford Coppola's Megalopolis,  Wes Anderson's Asteroid City, The French Dispatch and The Grand Budapest Hotel for which she's awarded her forth Academy Award and with Cirque Du Soleil creator Franco Dragone on the The House of Dancing Waters in Macau and Le Rêve in Las Vegas.

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Other film credits include Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter and Something Good and  Hill of Vision.

 

He recently designs the costumes for the film Lala, written and directed by Ludovica Fales and the short feature Unworthy, written and directed by Adam Perlman.

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For the Opera, he is currently designing "Galileo Galilei", a new production directed by James Robinson for St.Louis Opera to open in June 2024.

He worked with John Turturro on a new production of Rigoletto produced by Teatro Massimo di Palermo, Teatro Regio di Torino, Shaanxi Opera House, Xi'an and Opéra Royale de Wallonie, Liège.

Other Opera credits include Semiramide directed by Cecilia Ligorio, Fondazione Teatro La Fenice; The Turn of The Screw directed by Benedetto Sicca, Opera di Firenze;.

 

For the stage he designed The Forest, Three Sisters, The Cherry Orchard, Ivanov, for Classic Stage Company, N.Y.C. and Master Builder, Brooklyn Academy of Music.