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GUEST:
JUAN CARLOS CREMATA MALBERTI
HOST:
ADONIS MILÁN
Synopsis:
The playwright and director Juan Carlos Cremata Malberti speaks about his trajectory in theater and his scandalous productions which include La hijastra, Las viejas putas or Exit the King, that collapsed and sent into crisis the limits of institutionality of Cuba, as well as his experiences in exile.
Bio:
Juan Carlos Cremata Malberti
(Havana, 1961)
Holds a degree in Theater and Drama from the Instituto Superior de Arte, ISA (Havana, Cuba, 1986). From 1981 to 1986 he was an actor, writer and director at the Instituto Cubano de Radio y Televisión (ICRT). In 1990 he graduated with a specialty in Film, Video and Television Direction, as part of the first graduating class of the Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión (EICTV), at San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba. He is one of the most award-winning Cuban film directors and has been invited to numerous international film festivals (Oberhausen, Manheim, Berlín, Riverside Studios en Londres, Leipzig, Hamburgo, European Media Art en Osnabruck, Viña del Mar, Sao Paulo, Copenhagen, Utrecht, Brussels, Fribourg, Tampere, Clermont-Ferrand, Toulouse, Pisa, Catania, Montevideo, ARCOS in Madrid).
He has taught classes and given conferences at universities and other institutions in Germany, Italy, France, Chile, the United States, Argentina and Panama. In 1996 he received a grant from the Guggenheim Foundation in New York. He has given lectures at the University of San Diego, California, William and Mary University in Virginia and University City College in New York. For the 2007-2008 period he was the Deputy Director of the directing program at the Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión de San Antonio de los Baños. In September 2008 he premiered a publicly acclaimed theater production with Teatro El Público El Frigidaire, based on Le Frigo, by Copi, nominated for the Premio Caricato of the UNEAC for Best Director, Best Lead Comic Acting and Best Supporting Comic Acting. In October 2009, he premiered a publicly-acclaimed independent project in collaboration with the Consejo Nacional de las Artes Escénicas, a version under his direction of Camus´ The Misunderstanding, which received the Premio Adolfo Llauradó prize for Best Young Actress for 2009.
In March 2011 he premiered the play Sleep, by the Norwegian playwright Jon Fosse, a project financed by the Royal Embassy of Norway in Cuba with the collaboration of the Centro de Teatro de la Havana and for which the actress Olivia Santana obtained the Adolfo Llauradó award for Best Young Actress and the Caricato award from the UNEAC in 2011; the actor Hugo Alberto Vargas was nominated for the same prize. In December 2011, he premiered his publicly-acclaimed version of Nuestro Pueblito, based on Our Town, by Thorton Wilder, in the Centro Cultural Bertolt Brecht. In September 2012, he premiered a play based on La Hijastra, by Rogelio Orizondo and in April 2013 Las viejas putas (segunda temporada), contra el hombre lobo, at the Llauradó to a full house. It ran for over two months and later went on tour to the Teatro Terry in Cienfuegos. In March 2014 he premieres Todo por uno (monólogos descargas), by Elio Fidel López Velaz, with which the actress Maridelmis Marín obtained the Caricato Prize for Best Comic Actress and Best Female Theater Actor in 2014. In June of the same year Los amantes premieres, based on El amante by Harold Pinter.
In December 2014 Maríá Goos´ Cloaca premieres, financed by the Royal Embassy of Holland in Cuba, and performs to a full house during two months. In June 2015 he premieres Ionesco´s Exit the King, censored after its second night. Since 2016 he is exiled in the United States, where he regularly writes for the website CiberCuba and produces film shorts for his own web series under the name MICRO-CINEMA.
