(Barcelona, 1976)
Co-founder/Executive Steering Committee
Bachelor’s degree in Drama from the l’Institut del Teatre de la Diputació de Barcelona. Member of the artistic direction team of the Teatre Lliure de Barcelona from 2015 to 2017. Currently is part of the teaching staff atl’Oltrano – Teatro Nazionale della Toscana in Florence. During his years of study at the Institut del Teatre he received a grant to participate in the Scuola Europea per l’Arte dell’Attore in Pisa, Italy, and in 2004 he did further studies at Rose Bruford College in London. In 2005 he continued to train at the Obrador Internacional of the Sala Beckett with mentors such as José Sanchis Sinisterra and Martin Crimp. That same year he was chosen to join the Bilbao Arriaga Teatroa project, led by Lluís Pascual. In 2007 he was a member of Factoria Escenica Internacional, led by Carme Portaceli. In 2008 he travelled to Buenos Aires to train with Rafael Spregelburg and Alejandro Tantanian. From 2010 to 2012 worked at the Piccolo Teatro di Milano as an assistant director with Lluís Pascual. In 2013 he was chosen to participate in the Lincoln Center Theater Lab in New York. In 2014, Moby Dick, un viatge pel teatre won the Butaca Theater Award for best show for a family audience.
His directing credit include: An Iliad, by Lisa Peterson and Denis O’hare. Festival Temporada Alta de Girona 2018. Six characters, tribute to Tomás Giner, by Joan Yago. Teatre Lliure 2018. Il mercato della carne, by Bruno Fornasari. Teatro Goldoni di Firenze 2018. Brecht Said, based on different Bertolt Brecht works. Ex-cinema Goldoni di Firenze 2017. Revolta de bruixes, by Josep Ma Benet i Jornet. Teatre Lliure 2016. The Nether, by Jennifer Haley. Teatre Lliure 2016. La serva padrona, by G. B. Pergolesi. Teatre de Sarrià 2015. Circle Mirror Transformation, by Annie Baker. Teatre Lliure 2015. Moby Dick, un viatge pel teatre by Marc Artigau. Teatre Lliure 2013. The Storm, by August Strindberg. Teatre Lliure 2013.L’Attesa, by Remo Binosi. Teatre Lliure 2011. Maratona di New York, by Edoardo Erba. Teatre Villarroel 2010. The Body of a Woman as a Battlefield by Matei Visniec. La Nau Ivanow 2009. Seven Jewish Children,by Caryl Churchill. La Nau Ivanow 2009. The Ugly One, de Marius von Mayenburg. Teatre Tantarantana 2008. Només sexe, de Daniela Feixas. Teatre Gaudí Barcelona 2008. Passi el que passi saludeu, de Marta Buchaca. Obrador Internacional d’Estiu 2007. Family Stories, by Biljana Srbljanovic. Obrador Internacional d’Estiu 2007. God is a dj, by Falk Richter. Festival Grec de Barcelona 2007. L’Olor sota la pell, by Marta Buchaca. Sala Beckett 2007. Push up 1-3, by Roland Schimmelpfennig. Sala Beckett 2006. Attempts on Her Life, by Martin Crimp. Sala Beckett 2005. www.juancarlosmartel.com