Within the GREC 2016 Festival de Barcelona
A play is a story told using dramaturgical techniques. But, above all, it is a story. The playwright, therefore, has to use as a base a plot outline that he or she finds stimulating and that will arouse the audience’s interest. In this course we will be putting into practice resources that can help us construct a story, to create its plot outline; this will be the prior and essential step to creating a theatrical text.
He holds a degree in Dramatics and Stage Directing from the Theatre Institute and in History of Art from the UB, as well as the Official Master’s Degree in Theatrical Studies. He is a teacher of Dramaturgy and Staging at the Theatre Institute, and of Playwriting at the Sala Beckett’s Obrador.
He is the author of the works: La dona del 600, Infàmia (Critics’ Prize for the best text of 2016); Barcelona (TNC, 2013. Max Prize to the Best Play); Red Pontiac (Sala La Planeta, 2012); Desclassificats (La Villarroel, 2011); Lluny de Nuuk (TNC, 2011. Serra d’Or Prize); Casa Calores (Sala Beckett, staged reading 2007); El factor Luxemburg (Teatre Lliure, 2007) and the stage arts manual Fem teatre.
. He combines his teaching work with writing plays and television scripts. Since 2006 he has been a member of the teaching staff team at the Institut del Teatre de Barcelona.