biography

Santiago de Chile, 1983. Winner (six times in a row) of the National Dramatic Writing Contest. Published plays in Chile and Mexico, translated to English and German; plays staged in Chile, Germany, Mexico and the US. Fellow from the Goethe Institut, the International Theater Institut and Columbia University. Over 500 screenplays written and produced for television and cinema. Screenwriting studies at the Internationale FilmSchule Köln.
Director of Photography for Mosto TV, Canal 13, Emporio Creativo, Glovox and Hemisferio Derecho. Winner of the In-Edit
Festival 2010
for the short documentary «Proyecto E». Official selection in the In-Edit Festival 2012.
Lecturer in dramatic writing and photography in several universities and artistic academies; has also given talks on movie sequences, greek tragedy, literary adaptation, Spanish translations, metaphor and myth theory.
Singer and lyricist of the Chilean post-hardcore band «Tenemos Explosivos», awarded with a Pulsar prize in 2023 for their fourth LP, «Cortacalles».

He left Chile in 2013 and after living in Cologne, Berlin, London and Hastings, he’s currently a PhD candidate of Theatre and Performance at Columbia University, in New York.

Contact e-mail: dramaturgo@gmail.com