Ruth Rubio

Ruth Rubio is an Andalusian playwright and director. She began her theatrical career co-directing Crave by Sarah Kane and versioning and directing La Fundación by Buero Vallejo and Ella entre todas. Since then, she has written and premiered plays such as Ponedle pantalones a la luna, Maldetierra/ Landsick and Los Ignífugos (Universo 29), for which she received the Romero Esteo Award and was nominated for the Max Award for Best New Playwright. Los Ignífugos was also translated into German for the International Playwrights Competition at the Heidelberg Festival, where it was a finalist. In the field of theatre research, she has received grants from Sala Cuarta Pared and Goethe Institut (ETC fellowships), Teatro de la Abadía (A Gatas Residence), Bundesamt für Kultur of the Swiss Government for her project A body lands in nowhere and she took part in Centre Stage, a Creative Europe project led by Kultur i Väst (Sweden) and Theatre Forum (Ireland). She has recently been part of the X Programa de Dramaturgias Actuales organised by INAEM with her play El pulso de las candelas (Fandangos del plutonio), has been a member of Nuevas Dramaturgias/Antzerkigintza Berriak organised by Donostia Kultura with her play How to make a bomb in the kitchen of your mom and has premiered a podcast about the last workshop that Sarah Kane gave in Andalusia.