Federica Fruscella is an Italian born actor, singer, and musician. She trained and graduated in Pop Music at the Saint Louis College of Music in Rome, and also studied jazz. While working with several jazz bands, she began to approach ethnic music, becoming familiar with singing in various languages. Subsequently she began her musical research with particular attention to Celtic music and the songs of the Italian popular tradition.

She collaborated with Piccola Banda Ikona and Takadum Orchestra for many years, performing at the Auditorium Parco della Musica and Stabio World Music Festival.

In 2014 she performes at the Veleia Romana Festival with “Eneide Libro II” with Massimo Popolizio, performing songs in the Sabir, ancient Greek and Aramaic languages. She is the vocalist for Barbara Eramo in “Emily”, a project based on the poems of Emily Dickinson, with which she performed at the Auditorium Parco della Musica, Casa del Jazz and Cambio Festival.

Federica has been teaching singing at the Piccola Scuola delle Arti in Rome since 2013.

She began studying acting at Salvatore Cardone's “Studio Orale – Arte dell'Attore” and, since 2014, with Giancarlo Sepe at the Teatro La Comunità, and joined Sepe's company performing “Dubliners” by James Joyce as an actress/singer at the 2015 “Spoleto Festival dei Due Mondi”.

Since 2015 she has been teaching singing for actors at the “La Comunità” Theater in Rome.

She moves to Paris for two months and studies Commedia dell'Arte with Carlo Boso at the Académie Internationale des Arts du Spectacle – AIDAS.

Since 2016 she has been collaborating with Neapolitan director Guglielmo Guidi.

In 2017 she was Joan of Arc in Guidi’s adaptation of the Shakespearean tetralogy “Henriad” at the Teatro Belli in Rome, and was assistant director for “Bad Jazz” by Robert Farquhar; “Bogus Woman” by Kay Adshead (Trend Festival – New Frontiers of the British Scene); “Kissing Sid James” by Robert Farquhar (Italian tournée).

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Since 2018 she has been teaching singing at the School of Arts of the Teatro Augusteo-
Politeama Giacosa in Naples, and in 2020 she was on stage with "Clonmacnoise - Stories of Men and Spirits", Guidi’s theatrical adaptation of Alessandro Baricco's essays "Barbarians - Essay on mutation", as a singer / actress.

In 2022 she is on stage with "Beat like a Heart Beat", adapted and directed by Guglielmo Guidi from Baricco's trilogy "What we were looking for", "The Game", "Barbarians" as a singer / actress.

In September 2023 she moves to Ireland. In November 2023 her first album “Clonmacnoise” is released, a homage to Celtic folklore.