Carles Batlle

Among his plays, highlights include Temptation, premiered in 2004 at the Teatre Nacional de Catalunya and at Vienna’s Burgtheater (since then it has been translated and performed in more than ten different languages), Combat (1995-1998), Suite (SGAE Prize 1999), Oasi (Josep Ametller Prize 2002), Trànsits (2006-07), Oblidar Barcelona (Born Prize 2008), Zoom (14 d’abril Prize 2010), ), Nòmades (Octubre Prize 2019) o Still Life (Roda Prize 2018), which have premiered in such countries as Austria, Chile, France, Germany, Greece, Iran, Italy, Luxembourg, Mexico, Quebec, Switzerland and Turkey. He has translated playwrights such as Picq, Danan, Lescot, Sonntag, Dilasser o Amann, and has done adaptations of authors such as Guimerà, Iglésias, Ruyra, Beckett, Y. Özsoy, Almodóvar o H. Virtanen.

He was director of the Obrador de la Sala Beckett between 2003 and 2009 and director of the magazine Pausa until 2017. From 1998 to 2005 he was a member of the TNC’s Advisory Council. In 2004 his play Versuchung was selected for the Berlin Stückenmarkt. Between 2016 and 2021 he was Director of Cultural Services and Publications of the Institut del Teatre in Barcelona. He is a teacher of playwriting at this institution and at the UAB. He is the author of the essay El drama intempestiu (Per una escriptura dramàtica contemporània) (2020), which has already been translated and published in French and Spanish.