Lucía Miranda, director of the Cross Border Project, wins the Critical Eye Award for Theatre

This year, the El Ojo Crítico de Teatro Award, awarded by the cultural program of Radio Nacional, has gone to the playwright, art-educator and founder of The Cross Border Project: Lucía Miranda.

This award has been awarded to Lucía Miranda “for marking a path in research into new scenic formats, establishing bridges between America and Europe; for his work of theatrical pedagogy, in which the spectator actively participates, investigating unusual and “uncomfortable” places, making them visible; and for her versatility at the head of The Cross Border Project, combining the facets of manager, playwright, director and art-educator”, according to the decision of the jury, made up of leading professionals from the theatre and radio sector. Other winners of this XXIX edition have been Clara Roquet (cinema) and Alba Flores Robla (poetry).

As a playwright and stage director, Lucía Miranda has signed Nora, 1959, premiered and published by the Centro Dramático Nacional in 2015, La zarzuela es joven (Teatros del Canal, 2015) or Fiesta, fiesta, fiesta (LAVA Valladolid, 2017), selected by the INAEM for the V Programme for the Development of Current Playwritings. As a director, she has won the UN Woman Award of Latin America against gender violence for Las Burladas por Don Juan (2013), among others. In addition, she coordinates Applied Theatre projects in centres in Spain, Senegal, France, Ethiopia, Bulgaria, Norway and the United States. She holds a Master’s degree in Theatre and Education from New York University thanks to a Fulbright scholarship and is a member of the Director’s Lab at Lincoln Center in New York.

The Daniel and Nina Carasso Foundation has been supporting The Cross Border Project’s Fábrica de Harinas, Bichos Raros and La Panadería projects since 2016, through the Expanded Artistic Education call. Thanks to them, teachers from all over Spain are trained in Applied Theatre and accompanied in the implementation of their own artistic-pedagogical projects in the classrooms of their educational centres.

Congratulations, Lucia!

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