Àngels Aymar

Actress, playwright and stage director. She has written over thirty plays awarded, performed, translated and published in several languages. In 2019 she won the Andreu Solsona Prize for Aquestes Meves Veus. That same year she premiered in Italy Avvelenate (Enverinades, Teatre Versus Glòries 2018) and Magnolia Cafè. As a playwright and director, she has premiered at the Festival Grec of Barcelona, in Netherlands and in South Korea the show 100FEMMES; in New York, Hearts Beating Like Drums at the Wild Project Theatre and Solavaya at the Prelude Festival and at Teatro Repertorio Español. She is the first female Catalan playwright to be invited to participate in the Pen World Voices Festival NY-2008 with Out of the Blue. Resident author at the Teatre Nacional de Catalunya from 2006 to 2009, with Trueta and La Indiana. In 1992 the Catalan Government awarded her a grant for a residency with the company The Wilma Theater in Philadelphia (USA).