Juan Carlos Martel Bayod

Barcelona, 1976. Director of the Fundació Teatre Lliure – Teatre Públic de Barcelona. International artistic advisor of Teatro della Pergola – Fondazione della Toscana. Co-founder and member of the Director’s Lab of Mediterranean Steering Committee. He has a degree in Dramatic Art from the Institut del Teatre de Barcelona and a postgraduate in Design of Cultural Projects from the University of Barcelona. He obtained a scholarship to study at the Scuola Europea per l’Art dell’Attore in Pisa and did an Erasmus in 2004 to study at the Rose Bruford College of London. In 2005 he studied at the Obrador Internacional of Sala Beckett with José Sanchis Sinisterra and Martin Crimp. The same year he was chosen by Lluís Pascual’s BAT project at the Bilbao Arriaga Teatroa and in 2006 he was part of the Factoria Escènica Internacional platform promoted by Carme Portaceli. He worked as an assistant director to Lluís Pascual from 2010 to 2012 at the Piccolo Teatro di Milano. He is a member of the Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab, New York, since 2013. From 2015 until 2017 he was part of the Teatre Lliure artistic management team. Between 2017 and 2018 he has also been a teacher in Florence at the Scuola di formazione del mestiere dell’attore L’Oltrarno directed by Pierfrancesco Favino. In 2014, Moby Dick, un viatge pel teatre won the Butaca Theater Award for best show for a family audience. In 2019, Sis personatges, homenatge a Tomás Giner, won the Critics Award for best Dramaturgy. His directing credits include: Casting Giulietta by Marc Artigau. Teatre Lliure, 2019. Una Íliada, by Lisa Peterson and Denis O’hare. Festival Temporada Alta de Girona, 2018. Sis Personatges, homenatge a 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