Fascinating universes creator, she has not only achieved success in the novel with the works Agosto’ and ¿Vos me querés a mi?, but her theatre has also reached various parts of Europe, such as Germany, France and Spain, with her plays El tiempo todo entero (a free adaptation of The Glass Menagerie) and Fauna enjoying great international success. Romina Paula’s theatre is unusually accomplished for someone so young. Her situations and characters are of a plain beauty in her texts,’ as the master Mauricio Kartun would define it.

She was born in Buenos Aires on 14 May 1979. She studied theatre and has worked as an actress in numerous Argentine films, including: 2006: La Punta del diablo by Marcelo Paván; 2007, El Hombre robado by Matías Piñeiro; 2008, Resfriada by Gonzalo Castro; 2009, Todos mienten by Matías Piñeiro; 2011, Medianeras by Gustavo Taretto; 2011, El estudiante by Santiago Mitre; and 2012, Viola by Matías Piñeiro. As a dramaturg and theatre director, she premiered the plays Si te sigo, muero, El tiempo todo entero, Algo de ruido hace and Fauna. She has published the novels: ¿Vos me querés a mi? (2005), Agosto (August) (2009), Tres obras (Three Plays) (2013) and Acá todavía (2016). She has also contributed to various anthologies.

The aim is to show that actors, understood as artists who create ideas and stories rather than mere performers, can play a fundamental role in the production of theatrical events.

Denise Despeyroux Cantera (Montevideo, Uruguay, 1974) holds a degree in Philosophy from the University of Barcelona and is an author and stage director. Her career includes a large number of plays that she has written and directed, such as Un tercer lugar, Los dramáticos orígenes de las galaxias espirales, Ternura Negra, El más querido, Carne Viva, La vida no lo es todo, and Terapia, among many others. In addition, she has received numerous awards and recognitions, including the Federico García Lorca Theatre Award, the Best Show Award at the 15th Mostra de Teatre de Barcelona, and the Showing Film Award, among others.

Paco Romeu (Valencia, 1967) is a bilingual and self-taught dramaturg. He has cultivated other artistic areas, such as screenwriting, musical composition and short stories. He had no connection with the theatre until 2000, when he began to regularly compose the soundtrack for some productions for the Escola Municipal de Teatre de Picassent (Valencia) and to attend adult classes as an auditor. In 2002, he began writing texts for the children’s group and continued to do so until 2012. The adult group staged MANIFEST 04 (2004), VOCABULARI (2007) and LA TRONÀ (2010), productions that allowed him to base his dramaturgy on theatrical research processes developed directly with the actors. In 2011, he began to create texts unrelated to the EMT, thus freeing himself from the need to write plays with a large number of characters or compendiums of short scenes. Since then, he has received numerous awards and his texts have been published by various publishers and organisations, and performances and dramatised readings have been held in Valencia, Madrid and Barcelona. In 2016, he founded the TEATRE CORRENT theatre company

Francesc Josep Sanguino i Oliva holds a degree in Philosophy and Literature (Hispanic Studies) from the University of Alicante. He was a teacher of Language and Literature at the French Lycée in Alicante, Spanish for foreigners at the University of Alicante, worked as an editor for Recursos en la Red (Editorial Prensa Ibérica) and as deputy director of Content at Universia, responsible for OpenCourseWare at the University of Alicante between 2007 and 2014, and is a teacher of Classical Culture in Secondary Education. He was the first president of the Valencian Association of Theatre Writers (2014-2017), director of the Teatro Principal in Alicante (2015-2019) and director of the Alicante International Classical Theatre Festival (I-II-III editions). In 2018, he was appointed Vice-President of the Spanish Academy of Performing Arts. He was a member of the Valencian Council of Culture (2018-2019), the highest advisory body of the Valencian Regional Government. In 2019, he ran for mayor of his hometown for the PSOE. In 2023, he will direct the Contemporary Theatre Classroom at the University of Alicante. He has won prestigious awards such as the Castilla y León Regional Government’s Prize for Literature (Fray Luis de León), the City of San Sebastián Prize and the Marqués de Bradomín Prize. His works have been read, translated and premiered in Spain and in countries across Europe and Latin America. He has also been a TV scriptwriter for TV3 and Canal 9.

Jibbe Willems: After graduating from the Maastricht Theatre Institute, worked as an actor, director and savings and loans advisor at a major Dutch bank that had to be bailed out by the state when the crisis hit, before devoting himself full-time to theatre. For almost 10 years, he has been writing, translating and adapting plays for various companies. He does not limit himself to a single genre, but explores the form and function of language for diverse audiences. Sometimes long, sometimes short, sometimes for young people and sometimes for adults, from plays to librettos, from large stages such as the Internationaal Theater Amsterdam to summer festivals. For Willems each new work is a new exploration of the depths of a theme and a new experiment with language. His work has been translated and performed in Russia, Brazil, South Africa, Germany, Spain, Suriname, the Czech Republic, the United States, Mexico, China, Egypt and Belgium, and has been awarded and nominated on several occasions.

Marta Buchaca is an author and director. Born in Barcelona in 1979, she holds a degree in Humanities from the Autonomous University of Barcelona and trained as a playwright at the Centre d’Études Théâtrales in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, at the Institut del Teatre, and at the Obrador de la Sala Beckett. She is the author of El olor bajo la piel (Sala Beckett, 2005), Emergencia (2006), En conserva (IT, 2007), Plastilina (Sala Beckett, 2009), Las niñas no deberían jugar al fútbol (Grec Festival and Versus Theatre, 2009, Teatros del Canal, 2014), A mí no me digas amor (TNC, 2010, Proyecto t6), El año que viene será mejor (Next Year Will Be Better, Teatro Villarroel, Teatro Bellas Artes de Madrid, 2012), written together with Mercè Sarrias, Carol Lopez and Victoria Spunzberg, Litus (Sala Flyhard, Teatro Libre, 2012), Losers (Sala Villarroel, 2014, Bellas Artes Theatre, 2015), La cima, part of the ADA (Power-Potere-Poder) project, with Neil LaBute and Marco Calvani (Sala Beckett, July 2016, La Mama theatre in New York, January 2017), Kramig, (semifinalist in the Madrid playwriting competition at the Teatro Español), Una familia normal, Playoff, (Teatro Conde Duque in Madrid, 2018), Solo una vez (Grec Festival, TNC 2018), Rita (Sala Beckett, October 2019). In family theatre, she is the author of the adaptation of Alice in Wonderland (Teatro Romea, 2016 and 2017) and of the Cantània del Auditori, La noche de las pesadillas (Auditori de Barcelona, 2017). She has worked as a television scriptwriter on El Cor de la ciutat and La Riera (TV3). In cinema, she has written the screenplays for the adaptations of her plays Las niñas no deberían jugar al fútbol, directed by Sonia Sanchez (Zentropa 2017) and Litus, directed by Dani de la Orden. (Álamo producciones 2018). Her plays have won several awards, including: the 2015 Joaquim Bartina Award for Olor bajo la piel, finalist for the III Fundación Romea Award for theatrical texts for Emergencia, the XXXV Ciudad de Alcoy Theatre Award and runner-up for the 2007 Marqués de Bradomín Award for Plastilina, and the Max Award for best theatrical author in Catalan for El año que viene será mejor. Litus was nominated for the Butaca Awards for best small-format show and Losers was a finalist in the Temporada Alta Playwriting Tournament. For Una familia normal, he received the 11th Palanca y Roca Theatre Award. As a screenwriter, he won the award for best screenplay at the 2014 Zoom Festival for the TV movie adaptation of Las niñas no deberían jugar al fútbol. His works have been seen in Croatia, Guatemala, Venezuela, El Salvador, Greece, the Czech Republic, Cyprus, the United States and Canada.