Denise Duncan

Theatre director, playwright, teacher.

She has won awards such as the runner’s up prize for the Marqués de Bradomín Award for Negra, o nocturnal de una piel inoculada por el odio nuestro de cada día (Injuve 2006) and the Ciutat de Manacor Jaume Vidal Alcover Theatre Prize for Negrata de merda (Món de Llibres, 2018). She was author of the SGAE Foundation’s 7th Theatrical Writing Laboratory for Banzo, el aliento de las ancestras and resident playwright at the Sala Beckett for the 2019-2020 season with the play The Fight of the Century.

She is a founding member of La Pulpe Teatro and of the Col·lectiu Tinta Negra.

Among her theatre premieres, highlights have included The Fight of the Century (Runner-up for the Critics Prizes and Candidate for the Max Awards for Best Play 2020-2021), Negrata de merda (Candidate at the Max Awards as Best Play 2019-2020; nominated as Best Play and Best Small-format Play at the TeatreBarcelona.com awards), Pantalones cortos, Mamita Yunai, Una dona en el mirall, La Taverna dels Bufons, C.O.C.A., Absentee, Vaig a comprar una muntanya, based on texts by Joan Brossa, and Está linda la mar (2012), winner of Best Show at the Mostra de Barcelona 2012, among others.