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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.
Santiago Alba Rico
Writer and essayist
A graduate in Philosophy (UCM), Alba Rico was scriptwriter for the legendary television programme ‘La bola de cristal’ and has had some twenty books on politics, philosophy and literature published, as well as three children’s stories and a play. His works include the essays ‘Las reglas del caos’ (nominated for the Anagrama Award 1995), ‘La ciudad intangible’ (2000), ‘El islam jacobino’ (2001), ‘Vendrá la realidad y nos encontrará dormidos’ (2006), ‘Leer con niños’ (2015), ‘Capitalismo y nihilismo’ (2007), ‘El naufragio del hombre’ (2009), ‘Noticias’ (2010) and ‘Penúltimos días’ (Los libros de la catarata, 2016). Since 1988 he has had a close relationship with the Arab world, having translated into Spanish the Egyptian poet Naguib Surur and the Iraqi novelist Mohammed Jydair. For many years he has given lessons in Literature at the Cervantes Institute. His latest books are ‘Ser o no ser (un cuerpo)’ (Seix Barral, 2017), ‘Todo el pasado por delante’ (Los libros de la catarata, 2017) and ‘Nadie está seguro con un libro en las manos’ (Catarata, 2018). Alba Rico works with media outlets such as Público, Cuarto Poder, CTXT and Atlántica XXII.
Roberto Fratini Serafide
Playwright, teacher and dance theorist
Fratini Serafide is at present teaching Theory of Dance at the Conservatori Superior de Dansa Barcelona (Institut del Teatre) for the Màster Universitari en Estudis Teatrals (Institut del Teatre/Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) and is a member of the research groups ‘Iconodansa’ and ‘Heterotopías danzadas’, which is based at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili in Tarragona. He has given masterclasses, workshops and conferences on theory and dramatic writing at academic and theatrical institutions in Spain and abroad, notably the Universitat de Barcelona, the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, the Université de Lyon, the Mercat de les Flors, the Hochschule der Kunst (Berne), the Tanzhaus (Zürich), the Pôle Sud and UFR Arts (Strasbourg), the Tanzhaus (Düsseldorf), the Tanzquartier (Vienna), the Royaumont Danse (Paris), the Centro di Ricerca per il Teatro (Milan) and the University of Bologna Drama, Art and Music Studies. He has had books, articles and essays published in several magazines in this field, and has been key-note speaker and dramatist for the Modul-Dance Europe project since 2013. He is also the administrator of the Société des Auteurs Suisses training project ‘Dramaturgie Chorégraphique’. Fratini Serafide’s works have been performed in major European dance and theatre festivals, and in 2013 he won the Sebastià Gasch FAD Award.
Rosa Sanz Hermida
Licenciada y doctora en Filología Hispánica
Es licenciada y doctora en Filología Hispánica: Especialidad de Literatura por la Universidad de Oviedo; acreditada desde 2003 por la ANECA para la figura de contratada doctor. Ha sido “Fellowship” de la Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Leuven, Bélgica), “Maître de conférences invité” de la Université Catholique de Louvain (Louvain-la-Neuve, Bélgica), investigadora y profesora asociada de la Universidad de Valladolid, profesora adjunta de la Universidad Europea Miguel de Cervantes y colaboradora en el Máster Universitario en Interpretación e Investigación Musical de la Universidad Internacional de Valencia. Asimismo, ha firmado artículos de crítica musical y danza para los diarios ABC (edición de Castilla y León) y El Norte de Castilla. Desde sus inicios en 2006 forma parte del claustro de la Escuela Superior de Arte Dramático de Castilla y León.
