Lola Blasco

Madrid

Lola Blasco is a playwright, stage director and actress. She has published around ten plays and has premiered around twenty, at public and private theatres alike. Her work has been defined by its political commitment and the incorporation of new disciplines into the stage repertoire. Her work has been translated into Polish and is being translated into French and English. She has also been a guest at the Deutsches Theater in Berlín.

As a director, her latest play, La armonía del silencio, was produced by the Generalitat Valenciana and performed at the main hall of the Teatro Español in Madrid. She is currently preparing the premiere of Fuegos, which will be directed by Nina Reglero, for La Nave (Teatro Calderón de Valladolid), and Marie, which will be directed by Aída Argüelles and in which she will also participate as an actress.

Lola Blasco also teaches at the Universidad Carlos III, where she gives lectures on Literature and Playwriting in the Humanities department.

Among her most important accolades, a highlight is the National Prize for Literature in 2016 for her work Siglo mío, Bestia mía.