Ignacio Revello

Actor, playwright, director, and audio-visual producer. He graduated in Film Production from the Film School of Uruguay (ECU). During his studies, he was selected to spend a semester on an exchange at the UPAEP University in Puebla, Mexico.

He is currently a student of the TUD (University Technical Degree in Playwrighting) and of the EMAD (Municipal School for Dramatic Art) in Montevideo.

As a playwright, he trained at workshops offered by teachers such as David Gaitan, Sergio Blanco, Jimena Marquez, Marianella Morena and Mariano Tenconi, among others. In 2019, he was selected to attend the “New Dramaturgies” International Residency held in Paysandú, Uruguay, led by Gabriel Calderón.

That same year, he wrote Manifiesto para Unicornios Insatisfechos, his first play, for which he won the Juan Carlos Onetti Competition 2019, in the playwriting category. In 2020, he wrote Luciana Emancipada, with which he obtained a mention in the Juan Carlos Onetti Competition 2020, in the playwriting category. This play will be premiered in 2023, after having won the Sala Lazaroff call for residencies.

He is currently in the post-production phase of Adultos acabados, a web series that he writes, directs, and stars in, and that was winner of the Web Series Laboratory of the DETOUR 2019 festival, as well as of the “Montevideo Filma” fund of the ICAU (Uruguayan Film and Audiovisual Institute).