Roger Torns

Actor, director and playwright. He graduated in directing and playwriting from the Institut del Teatre and earned a diploma in the Performing Arts at La Casona school. He has also attended several playwriting workshops and seminars at the Obrador de la Sala Beckett. As a director and playwright he has premiered Soliloquizing with Someone (La Seca, 2015), Elefant Terrible, cocreated with Eric Balbàs (Sala Beckett, 2017), Hàbitat [Doble Penetració] (DespertaLab Grant, 2018), Distància (Sala Beckett, 2018), Persones potencialment perilloses (Tantarantana, 2019), Estrip-Tesi (Càtedra Brossa Grant, 2018) and Fantàstic funeral festiu (Tantarantana, 2022). He wrote and directed the stage adaptation of Woyzeck caducat (2015), directed Manu Moreno’s play 42KM of the cia.42km (Odisseus Grant, 2019) and wrote Típica Autòmat thanks to the Sala Beckett’s support. He has written, directed and starred in the pilot episode of Animal en sèrie (in Filmin and Betevé; runner-up of the 2021 Fiction Pilots Showcase).

Further information at www.rogertorns.com.