Camilla Brison graduated in Cultural Heritage from the Università degli Studi di Milano and the Université de Nîmes in 2009. She earned a Master of Arts in Advanced Theatre Practice from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in London in 2013 and a Diploma in Production from the Civica Scuola di Cinema Luchino Visconti in Milan in 2023. She is currently attending the Advanced Training Course Donne, Pace e Mediazione at the Faculty of Political Science at Università degli Studi La Sapienza in Rome.

In 2023, she directed Le Lacrime amare di Petra Von Kant by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, the first theatrical production by the Museo Bagatti Valsecchi in Milan. In 2022, she co-directed with Marina Hanganu 2032 Smart-Family, a telematic performance produced in collaboration with the Teatro George Ciprian (Romania) and co-funded by the European Union's Creative Europe programme. In 2021, she made her debut at Romaeuropa Festival with Notte Bianca by Tatjana Motta, winner of the Premio Riccione 2019 and recipient of the 2020 Production Award.

That same year, she joined the Beyond the Sud programme, an artistic exchange between Italy, Greece, Uruguay, Argentina, and Chile, from which she co-created Archipelagos with Nicolás Lange. In 2020, she debuted with No land lady by Greta Cappelletti at Anni Luce, Romaeuropa Festival—this performance was a finalist in the Biennale di Venezia's call for Young Directors Under 30 and winner of the Cura 2020 grant.

As a director, she has also worked on: Una Marchesa ad Assisi by Ippolita Baldini and Emanuele Aldrovandi, 3 Novembre and Sterili by Maria Teresa Berardelli (winner of the Premio Riccione Tondelli 2009), and Vuoti di Memoria by Laura Tassi, Greta Cappelletti, and Lorenzo Piccolo, produced by Teatro Carcano in Milan.

As an assistant director, she has worked on: Il Macello di Giobbe by Fausto Paravidino, La vita Ferma by Lucia Calamaro, Queen Lear by Nina’s Drag Queens, and Per il tuo Bene by Pier Lorenzo Pisano.

As a translator into Italian, her work includes (from French): George Kaplan by Frédéric Sonntag and Sicilia e Tunisia by Clyde Chabot; (from English): Lessons Sweet and Honourable by Edward Fortes and Angry by Philip Ridley; (from Spanish): Archipelagos by Nicolás Lange; and (from Romanian): 2032 Smart Family.

From 2012 to 2015, she was a member of the Reading Committee and of the CRISI laboratory led by Fausto Paravidino at Teatro Valle Occupato. She served as a selection judge for the 53rd and 54th editions of the Premio Riccione per il Teatro.

After a research period in 2018 under the mentorship of Maison Antoine Vitez in Paris and with the support of a scholarship from the Lazio region, in 2019 she co-founded Italy Uncovered – new plays from Italy, a contemporary Italian playwriting festival in London, together with Edward Fortes and Anna Landi.

From 2019 to 2024, she worked with Emons Libri&Audiolibri as an audiobook director.

In addition to Italian, she speaks English, French, Spanish, and Portuguese.