CAST TEAMWORK and STAGE SPEECH

Biografía

PRESENTATION / BIO

Actress from Donostia with solid training in acting, classical theatre and verse, singing, and movement. She began her studies in Donostia at the Antzerti school in 1981, later completing them in Barcelona and Madrid.

CV / PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

In the field of teaching, she has been an Acting instructor at the schools Memory, Scaena, and Estudio de Canto Calatrava in Madrid. As a dramatic actress, she has worked alongside Nuria Espert, José Luis Gómez, Irene Papas, Natalia Menéndez, José Pedro Carrión, Julieta Serrano, Esperanza Roy, Juan Polanco, Jaime Blanch, Jacobo Dicenta, Gerardo Malla, Esteban Polls… in plays such as Yerma by Lorca, Medea and The Trojan Women by Euripides, Mr. Puntila and His Man Matti by Bertolt Brecht, Faust by Goethe, The Mousetrap and The Unexpected Guest by Agatha Christie, El Auto de las Plantas and La devoción de la Cruz by Calderón, Un bobo hace ciento by Solís and Rivadeneira, The Lark by Anouilh, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee, Les Belles-Soeurs by Michel Tremblay. For the latter she received the 2008 Actors’ Union Award for Best Supporting Actress.
On television, she has appeared in over thirty series such as Tierra de Lobos, La Duquesa, Somos Cómplices, Goenkale, Hospital Central, Motivos Personales, Aída, Los hombres de Paco, Aquí no hay quien viva, El internado, Cuenta atrás…

DESCRIPTION / OBJECTIVES

Theatrical practice is a collective act, and the ensemble work we will carry out in this workshop is based on listening, generosity, trust, and onstage rapport in order to find a shared energy and, from individuality, feel part of a whole.
Stage speech, despite what it may seem, is very different from everyday speech. The actor must have strong awareness of phonetics and prosody to achieve eloquence in stage delivery.