José Manuel Mora Ortiz

Author, playwright, Director of the Escuela Superior de Arte Dramático de Castilla y León (ESADCYL)

A graduate in Dramatic Writing and Stage Direction from the Real Escuela Superior de Arte Dramático in Madrid, Mora Ortiz completed his theatrical training in European cities including London, Berlin and Amsterdam.  His plays – translated into English, French, Italian, German, Polish and Serbian –have been performed at the Centro Dramático Nacional, the Teatro Español in Madrid, the Royal Court Theatre in London, the Berliner Festspiele und Theatertreffen in Berlin, and the TR Warszawa in Warsaw, among others.  He was also selected as author for the Spanish Ministry of Culture’s Programme of Current Dramatic Writing and for FONCA (Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes/National Fund for Culture and Arts) programme for young creative artists in Mexico.  In recent years he has had a prolific career as author, dramatic writer and literary collaborator, and is currently the artistic director of Draft.inn.  He also collaborates as playwright with the Belgium theatre-and-dance company Peeping Tom, and he is the artistic advisor for the Staatstheater Wiesbaden Biennale.  His play ‘Los Nadadores Nocturnos’ won the Max Award for the Best New Production in 2015.  He recently premiered ‘Esta no es la casa de Bernarda Alba’.  Mora Ortiz has been director of ESADCYL since 2017.