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Surname: Iglesias Simón
First name: Pablo
Born: 3 May 1977, Madrid, Spain

Biography

Pablo Iglesias Simón (Madrid, 1977) has a degree in Stage Directing by RESAD and a PhD in Media by Universidad Complutense of Madrid. In the theatrical field he has worked as theatre director, sound designer and playwright. He started staging plays of contemporary authors, such as Heiner Müller or Sarah Kane, but since 2002 he has been staging his own plays. In November of 2009 it was the opening night of his last play El lado oeste del Golden Gate (The West Side of the Golden Gate) for whose staging he was awarded with the “José Luis Alonso” Award for the Best Young Director 2010. He has been sound director for more than ten shows working for both public and private companies. He has published the plays 11-N, Sin móvil aparente (For No Apparent Reason), finalist of the IIIth "Teatro Exprés" Award 2002, Alicia frente al espejo (Alice Facing the Mirror), Tu imagen sola (Your Lonely Picture), written in collaboration with Borja Ortiz de Gondra and winner of the XIXth “Carlos Arniches-Ciudad de Alicante” Award 2003, and El lado oeste del Golden Gate (The West Side of the Golden Gate), finalist of the XXXIIIth Born Award 2008. He has taught film directing at the Universidad Complutense of Madrid and, nowadays, he is professor of stage directing at RESAD where he had taught the subjects Stage Directing Practice, History of Theatre and Sound for the Theatre. He is now developing a research in theatre and cinema that has led him to give conferences in seminars in Spain, France and Chile, and to publish more than twenty articles in specialised magazines of Spain and Brazil. He has written two books, Postproducción digital de sonido por ordenador, republished in Mexico with the title Postproducción digital de sonido por computadora, and De las tablas al celuloide (From the Stage to the Celluloid), winner of the "Leandro Fernández de Moratín" Award for Theatrical Studies 2008. He has also taken part in the collective books Análisis de la dramaturgia and Cinema i teatre: influències i contagis. PUBLISHED PLAYS - “El lado oeste del Golden Gate”, ADE-Teatro. N. 125. April-June 2009. Pages. 104-123. - "El lado oeste del Golden Gate". Madrid: Asociación de Autores de Teatro, 2009. ISBN: 978-84-96837-15-7. - “Alicia frente al espejo”, in VVAA. Maratón de Monólogos 2004. Madrid: Asociación de Autores de Teatro, 2004. Pages. 99-105. ISBN: 84-88659-45-8. - “Tu imagen sola”, written in collaboration with Borja Ortiz de Gondra. Alicante: Ayuntamiento de Alicante and XII Muestra de Teatro Español de Autores Contemporáneos, 2004. ISBN: 84-931131-8-2. - “11-N” in VVAA. Zona Cero. Ciudad Real: Instituto de la Juventud and Ñaque Editora, 2002. Pages. 24-55. ISBN: 84-89987-44-0. - “Sin móvil aparente” in VVAA. “Teatro 8. El huevo, Susana Sánchez; I am not that I am, David Graus; La piedra, Paco Becerra; Sin móvil aparente, Pablo Iglesias”. Madrid: Asociación de Autores de Teatro, 2003. Pages. 37-44. AWARDS As playwright - Finalist of the XXXIIIth Born Award 2008 for the play “El lado oeste del Golden Gate” (“The West Side of the Golden Gate”). - XIXth “Carlos Arniches-Ciudad de Alicante” Award 2003 for the play “Tu imagen sola” (“Your Lonely Image”), written in collaboration with Borja Ortiz de Gondra. - Finalist of the IIIth “Teatro Exprés” Award 2002 for the play “Sin móvil aparente” (“For no Apparent Reason”). As theatre director - "José Luis Alonso" Award for the Best Young Theatre Director 2010 for his staging of “El lado oeste del Golden Gate” (“The West Side of the Golden Gate”). As theatre researcher - "Leandro Fernández de Moratín" Award for Theatrical Studies 2008 for the book “De las tablas al celuloide” (“From the Stage to the Celluloid”). - PhD Extraordinary Award for the thesis “Trasvases discursivos del teatro de finales del siglo XIX y de principios del XX al Cine Primitivo y al Cine Clásico de Hollywood” (“Discursive Transfers from the Theatre of the Late Ninetieth and the Early Twentieth Century to the Early Film and Classical Hollywood Cinema”).

Themes

Magic, Quantum principles, Fate, Chance, Uncertainty, Love, Parallel universes, Theatre, Metatheatrality

Plays in the database

• El lado oeste del Golden Gate (2008) / The West Side of the Golden Gate

Entry submitted by Pablo_Iglesias on 18 February 2011 and last updated by Gwynneth Dowling on 8 March 2011

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