Marta Barceló

(Palma, 1973)

A graduate in Dramatic Art (speciality in mime) at the Institut del Teatre of Barcelona. Subsequently, she also took circus studies at The Circus Space (London).

Her career has been very much linked to her production company Res de Res i En Blanc (now defunct), where she worked for twenty years as a creator, actress, trapeze artist, co-director or author of mime, circus and theatre works and texts. In parallel, since 2005 she has worked as a screenwriter on fiction series broadcast on regional television in the Bale-aric Islands (Vallterra, Treufoc, Pep…).

In 2013 the show (“remor”), which was cowritten, coperformed and codirected by her, won the Total Theatre Award at the Fringe Festival in Edinburgh.

She won the Scriptwriting Tournament of the Balearic Islands with Before the German is Here (2016) and the tournaments of the Temporada Alta de Girona (2016) and the Transatlántico de Buenos Aires (2017) with Tocar mare. She also won the Palanca i Roca Theatre Prize (2020) with her play Anar a Saturn i tornar.

She has worked on a children’s novel (Lúnia, winner of the Guillem Cifre de Colonya award) and short plays.

She is currently co-director of the C.IN.E. (Sineu Centre for Performing Arts Research).