{"id":5090,"date":"2021-08-27T12:00:12","date_gmt":"2021-08-27T10:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fit.latitud46.com\/fit-artisti\/sergio-blanco\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T23:14:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T21:14:22","slug":"sergio-blanco","status":"publish","type":"fit-artisti","link":"https:\/\/fit.latitud46.com\/en\/fit-artists\/sergio-blanco\/","title":{"rendered":"SERGIO BLANCO"},"content":{"rendered":"

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 Com\u00e9die Fran\u00e7aise, he decided to devote himself entirely to writing and directing plays.
\nHis works have received several awards, including, the National Playwriting Prize of Uruguay<\/strong>, the Playwriting Prize of the Mayoralty of Montevideo<\/strong>, the Fondo Nacional de Teatro Prize<\/strong>, the Florencio Prize for the Best Playwright<\/strong>, the International Casa de las Am\u00e9ricas Prize<\/strong>, and the Theatre Awards Prize for the Best Text<\/strong> in Greece. In 2017, his play Thebes Land<\/em> received the prestigious British Off West End Theatre Award<\/strong> in London.<\/p>\n

His work entered the repertoire of the Comedia Nacional of Uruguay in 2003 and 2007 with his plays .45′<\/em> and Kiev<\/em>. Among his best-known titles are Slaughter<\/em>, .45\u2019<\/em>, Kiev<\/em>, Opus Sextum<\/em>, Diptiko<\/em> (vol. 1 and 2), Barbarie<\/em>, Kassandra<\/em> (at FIT in 2005), El salto de Darwin<\/em>, Tebas en Land<\/em>, Ostia<\/em>, La ira de Narciso<\/em>, El bramido de Du\u0308sseldorf<\/em> and Cuando pases sobre mi tumba<\/em>, Cartografia de una desaparicion<\/em>, Tr\u00e1fico<\/em> and Memento Mori<\/em>.
\nMost 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.<\/p>\n

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.
\nBetween 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<\/em>.<\/p>\n

In 2013, Tebas en Land<\/em> is presented in avant-premi\u00e8re then, in 2015, Ostia<\/em>, a text that is performed by his sister, the actress Roxana Blanco, in August 2015, La ira de Narciso<\/em> performed by the playwright, director and actor Gabriel Calder\u00f3n, and in 2017, he publishes his latest autofiction El bramido de D\u00fcsseldorf<\/em>.
\nIn recent years, his shows are hosted in international festivals around the world.<\/p>\n

In 2019 Tr\u00e1fico<\/em> opens in Bogot\u00e1, Cuando pases sobre mi tumba<\/em> in Montevideo and Memento Mori<\/em> (at FIT in 2020) in Barcelona; this year Divina invenci\u00f3n<\/em> premieres in Madrid and is part of the FIT program in October 2021; in late summer 2021 Zoo<\/em> is edited in Buenos Aires. From the period related to the Coronavirus pandemic, Blanco presents a new work titled COVID-451<\/em>, (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.<\/p>\n

< photo<\/b> Nair\u00ed Aharoni\u00e1n<\/span><\/p>\n

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Divina Invenci\u00f3n o la celebraci\u00f3n del amor<\/a>
\n<\/em><\/span>2021 Edition
\n01.10 – 10.10
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Memento Mori o la celebrac\u00edon de la muerte<\/span><\/em><\/a>
\n2020 Edition
\n29.09 – 11.10<\/p>\n

Kassandra<\/span><\/em><\/a>
\n2011 Edition
\n21.10 – 30.10<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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