Contemporary Spanish Queer Theatre

Round table on Contemporary Spanish Queer Theater with Luisgé Martín, Alberto Conejero, Nando López, directed by the theatre company Little Soldier Productions.

Luisgé Martín, a Spanish writer, won the Herralde novel prize in 2020 with "One Hundred Nights". Among other works, "La vida del revés" or "La vida equivocada" stand out. His first book published by him, in 1990, was "The dark ones," a collection of short stories that showed the literary traces of Jorge Luis Borges. Later he has published the novels "La dulce ira" "(Alfaguara, 1995)," La muerte de Tadzio "(Alfaguara, 2000, awarded the Ramón Gómez de la Serna Prize)," Los amores confiados "(Alfaguara, 2005), "The severed hands" (Alfaguara, 2009), "The shadow woman" (Anagrama, 2012). In his bibliography there is a singular title: "Sex lover seeks morbid partner", a collection of real pornographic letters that he compiled and He edited. He occasionally collaborates as a columnist in El Viajero, Babelia, El País, Shangay Express and other periodicals. His last written work is a play entitled "Amor Puro", published by Dos Bigotes.

Alberto Conejero is a renowned Spanish playwright and poet whose works have premiered in Madrid, Buenos Aires, London, Montevideo, Moscow and Athens. Among his plays, we can highlight "Todas las noches de un día or "La piedra oscura". In 2019 he was distinguished with the National Dramatic Literature Award 2019 for his play"La geometría del trigo". In 2016, at the Max Theatre Awards, he won the award for best original creation for "La piedra oscura", a work with which he was already awarded the Ceres Award in 2015 and the José Estruch Award in 2016.

Nando López is a Spanish novelist and playwright. He was the winner of the 2020 Gran Angle Award with "Eric's version" and a finalist for the 2010 Nadal Award with "The Age of Wrath". As a playwright, he has premiered his works inside and outside of Spain, in countries such as Costa Rica, Chile, the United States, Venezuela, Mexico or Panama. Among his titles are "Inventing Lope", "Nothing happens", "# malditos16" (candidate for the 2018 Max Award for Best New Authorship), among others. He is also the author of theatrical pieces for children and young people and free versions of classic texts such as "Desengaños amorosos" (premiered at the XLI International Theatre Festival of Almagro and candidate for the Max 2020 Award for Best Theatre Adaptation) and " The harpies in Madrid "(XXXIX Almagro International Theatre Festival).

Little Soldier Productions is formed by Patrícia Rodríguez and Mercè Ribot and is based in London.