Pablo Remón

(Madrid, 1977)

Pablo Remón is a playwright, scriptwriter and theatre director.

He has written and directed the plays La abducción de Luis Guzmán, 40 años de paz, Barbados, etcétera, El tratamiento, Los mariachis, Doña Rosita, anotada, Los farsantes, Barbados en 2022 and Vania x Vania. His plays have been premiered in theatres such as Pavón Kamikaze, Teatro Valle-Inclán or Teatros del Canal de Madrid, along with participating in the Festival de Otoño de la Comunidad de Madrid, the Grec Festival in Barcelona or the FIBA in Buenos Aires. They have been translated into French, English, Italian and Polish and performed in countries such as the United States and Argentina. In 2023 he directed the Italian production of Los farsantes, premiered at the Festival Due Mondi, in Spoleto. In 2024 an English version of Doña Rosita, anotada will be premiered in London, at the Cervantes Theatre. He has won awards such as the Premio Lope de Vega or the Premio Jardiel Poncela. He was distinguished with the National Prize for Dramatic Literature 2021.

As a scriptwriter, he has cowritten several feature films, such as No sé decir adiós and Intemperie. He was awarded the Goya Prize for the best adapted script, the Julio Alejandro Prize for Latin American Scriptwriting, and the Biznaga de Plata for the best script at the Málaga Film Festival on two occasions. He has directed short films that have earnt awards in the most important festivals in Spain, and has written for series such as Vamos Juan, Venga Juan, La Ruta and Nos vemos en otra vida. Also for television, he has won the Feroz prize and the ALMA prize for the best script on two occasions.

He has been guest speaker at New York University, the First Latin American Congress of Scriptwriters held in Mexico City, and Euroimágenes in Colombia, among others. From 2011 to 2019 he coordinated the Script Diploma at ECAM. In 2019 he was a member of the jury of the Princess of Asturias Prize for Literature.

His plays have been published by La uÑa RoTa, in three volumes: Abducciones (2018) includes all the plays performed by the company La_Abducción until 2018, while Fantasmas (2020) and Los Farsantes (2022) include his later production.