Work & Activities

After a first stage as an actor in several companies and the Galician Drama Centre, he made his debut as an actor and stage manager in “O melro branco” (Xeración Nós Prize, 1989). The play was performed by his theatre company (Tranvía Teatro).While he directed Ollomoltranvía, he staged his most famous play, “COMMEDIA, un xoguete para Goldoni”, a commedia dell’arte performance that was awarded Compostela Prizes in 1993 for the Best Performance, Best Direction and Best Main Actor, as well as the Criticism Prize of Valencia for the Best Performance in 1994 and the prize of the Independent Theatre Association of Alicante for the Best Performance in l995.He staged several plays and adapted and translated others for several Galician theatre companies and the Galician Drama Centre, working with his own texts or others by Roma Mahieu, Gil Vicente, Quico Cadaval, Marco Antonio de la Parra, Suso de Toro, Sanchis Sinisterra, Therry Jones, Umberto Eco and Itziar Pascual.These are some of the performances he wrote or directed: ‘Nau de Amores’ (he staged this performance from texts of 16 works by Gil Vicente); ‘Nano’, a monologue taken from texts of the novel ‘Tic Tac’ by Suso de Toro, (María Casares Prize in 1998 for the Best Adaptation, Direction and Best Main Actor); ‘O bululú do linier’ (María Casares Prize in 2000 for the best Original Text); ‘ÑikiÑaque’ (Max Prize in 2002 for the best original text tin Galician), ‘O Binomio de Newton’ (he was nominated to Max Prizes in 2003 for the best original text in Galician); ‘Bicos con lingua’, written with other authors (María Casares prize in 2004 for the best original text); ‘García’ (he was nominated for the Revelation Performance in the Max Prizes in 2006 and María Casares Prize in 2006 for the best original text); ‘Emigrados’, written with other authors (Max Prize in 2008 for the best original text in Galician), ‘A piragua’, produced by the Galician Drama Centre (María Casares Prize in 2008 for the best original text) and ‘E ti quen vés sendo’, produced by Talía Teatro (he was nominated to Max Prizes in 2009 for the best original text in Galician and María Casares Prizes in 2009 for the best original text and the best direction).He was one of the European playwrights who were selected to participate in the European Theatre Marathon, within the programme of activities of the European Cultural Capitality of Brussels, 2000.Regarding oral narration, he has participated in many festivals in Spain, Portugal and Latin America and gives an annual seminar about ‘orality in the actor’ in the School of Music and Performing Arts in Porto.