Franco-Uruguayan playwright and theatre director, Sergio Blanco lived his childhood and adolescence in Montevideo and currently lives in Paris. After studying classical philology and theatre direction at the Comédie Française, he decided to devote himself entirely to writing and directing plays.
His works have received several awards, including, the National Playwriting Prize of Uruguay, the Playwriting Prize of the Mayoralty of Montevideo, the Fondo Nacional de Teatro Prize, the Florencio Prize for the Best Playwright, the International Casa de las Américas Prize, and the Theatre Awards Prize for the Best Text in Greece. In 2017, his play Thebes Land received the prestigious British Off West End Theatre Award in London.
His work entered the repertoire of the Comedia Nacional of Uruguay in 2003 and 2007 with his plays .45′ and Kiev. Among his best-known titles are Slaughter, .45’, Kiev, Opus Sextum, Diptiko (vol. 1 and 2), Barbarie, Kassandra (at FIT in 2005), El salto de Darwin, Tebas en Land, Ostia, La ira de Narciso, El bramido de Düsseldorf and Cuando pases sobre mi tumba, Cartografia de una desaparicion, Tráfico and Memento Mori.
Most of his texts, besides being published and performed in his home country, have also been translated into several languages and published in different countries. In recent years, his works have been premiered in France, Germany, England, Spain, Italy, Greece, Switzerland, Luxembourg, the United States, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Mexico, Venezuela, Costa Rica and Peru.
In parallel to his work as a playwright and director, Blanco carries out an intense academic activity that has led him to hold seminars, courses and conferences in several European and Latin American universities and cultural institutions.
Between 2008 and 2014 he works for the Ministry of Education and Culture in France coordinating and directing literary writing seminars in different educational centres and in March 2013 he is appointed by the University Carlos III of Madrid, Artistic Director of the European Crossing Stages project that has connected different universities and artistic institutions from different European countries for two years. In the same year, he is invited by the Comedia Nacional of Uruguay to direct the First National Seminar of Dramaturgy and in 2014, the National Institute of Performing Arts of Uruguay entrusts him with the direction of a year-long scenic investigation with eight researchers around the theme: Autofiction, to tell oneself on stage.
In 2013, Tebas en Land is presented in avant-première then, in 2015, Ostia, a text that is performed by his sister, the actress Roxana Blanco, in August 2015, La ira de Narciso performed by the playwright, director and actor Gabriel Calderón, and in 2017, he publishes his latest autofiction El bramido de Düsseldorf.
In recent years, his shows are hosted in international festivals around the world.
In 2019 Tráfico opens in Bogotá, Cuando pases sobre mi tumba in Montevideo and Memento Mori (at FIT in 2020) in Barcelona; this year Divina invención premieres in Madrid and is part of the FIT program in October 2021; in late summer 2021 Zoo is edited in Buenos Aires. From the period related to the Coronavirus pandemic, Blanco presents a new work titled COVID-451, (premiere at the Grec festival in Barcelona in 2021) which will also touch other cities around the world with the participation of health personnel from different hospitals.
< photo Nairí Aharonián
@ FIT
Divina Invención o la celebración del amor
2021 Edition
01.10 – 10.10
Memento Mori o la celebracíon de la muerte
2020 Edition
29.09 – 11.10
Kassandra
2011 Edition
21.10 – 30.10
