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TEACHING, CONFERENCES AND PUBLIC INTERVENTIONS
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> Private Seminars of Playwriting since 1999 to the date.
> Seminars of playwriting for New Authors in the frame of Panorama Sur from 2010 to 2019.
> Playwriting Workshop # 4 (last workshop of the programme) in the Post Degree on Playwriting, Universidad Nacional de Artes – UNA from 2010 to 2021.
> Playwriting at the Post Degree in Creative Writing (Drama), UNTREF (Universidad de Tres de Febrero) under the direction of María Negroni, from 2014 to the date.
> Workshop IV at the Post Degree in Experimental Opera (UNTREF) under the direction of Martín Bauer, 2022.
> Teaches at the Playwriting Career, Escuela de Arte Dramático – EAD, where he dictates several seminars: New Writing, Workshop for New Authors, and Playwriting Workshop. (1996-2012)
> Writing and Acting Workshops in several provinces of the country organized by the Instituto Nacional de Teatro – INT (1997-1999)
> Private Seminars of Playwriting with the collaboration of Daniel Veronese. (1999- 2001)
> Seminars of Playwriting with the collaboration of Daniel Veronese at the Centro Cultural Ricardo Rojas. (2000- 2001)
> Private Theoretical Seminars on New Writing. (2003-2008)
> Theoretical Seminars on New Writing for the Complejo Teatral de Buenos Aires – CTBA. (2004, 2005, 2008 and 2009)
> Seminars of Playwriting for Advanced Pupils from the Direction & Acting Career at the Instituto Universitario Nacional de Artes - IUNA.
> Seminars of Playwriting organized by Argentores. (2006/2007)
> Workshop in the frame of Núcleo de Dramaturgia organized by SESI and British Council, Sao Paulo, Brazil, 2010.
> Directs a workshop at the Centro Experimental del Teatro Colón - CETC coordinating a group of writers in order to produce a libretto of an opera based on Ada Falcón (popular tango singer) with music by Lucas Fagin that was premiered in November 2011.
> Participant at the International Symposium of Opera and Libretto organized by Ópera Butxaca / Nueva Creación, Barcelona, Spain, June 2011.
> Seminar on Opera Libretti organized by Opera Butxaca / Nueva Creación, Barcelona, Spain, June 2011.
> Seminar “El bosque Harrower” dedicated to actors and directors on David Harrower’s texts, Teatro Fernando Fernán Gómez, Madrid, Spain, March 2012.
> Seminar in Playwriting in the frame of the Bienal de Arte Joven, Buenos Aires, September / October 2013.
> Seminar in the frame of Panorama Sur / Extensión La Paz - Bolivia organized by Espacio Alternativo and Goethe Institut - La Paz, June 2014.
> “El Bosque de los textos. Aproximaciones a la escritura teatral sobre textos no teatrales”; workshop for playwrights and directors in the frame of Creador.es, Valencia, Spain, September 2014.
> “On Blackbird” by David Harrower; workshop for actors, Escuela de Arte Dramático de Valladolid, Spain, September 2014.
> “Variations around Anna K”.; workshop for actors and directors on motifs and scenes from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy; organised by draft.inn in collaboration with Aula de Teatro, Universidad Carlos III, Madrid, Spain; September 2014.
> “Variations on Anna Karenina”; workshop for actors on motifs and scenes from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy; organised by the Festival Frinje 15 at Matadero Madrid, Spain, July 2015.
> Advisor in the International Platform for the Creation in Musical Theatre, organized by the Goethe-Institut and the Munich Biennale, CABA; July 2015.
> Invited – among other writers – to give a conference in the frame of Seminario Iberoamericano de Dramaturgia Creativa at Centro Cultural Kirchner, CABA, October 2015.
> Conference about “Art and Resistance” at the Seminar on Armenian Genocide in charge of Professor Juan Pablo Artinian, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, UBA, November 2015.
> Presents “Yorick” a lecture performance on “Infinite Jest”, by David Foster Wallace, Cycle “La Broma Infinita”, La Casona Iluminada, Buenos Aires, July 2016.
> Conference “El verbo se hará carne. La palabra y el cuerpo en la escena teatral” at FILBA / Montevideo, Uruguay, September 2016.
> Workshop “La música del texto (o el texto de la música)”. Encuentros alrededor de la puesta en escena de textos teatrales y musicales at INAE, > Workshop “El Bosque de los textos. Aproximaciones a la escritura teatral sobre textos no teatrales” at FILBA / Montevideo, Uruguay and FILBA / Buenos Aires, September 2016.
> Participant at the Congreso de Tendencias Escénicas with Ariel Stolier, Ignacio Laviaguerre, Elisabetta Riva and Pablo Silva, Buenos Aires, Universidad de Palermo, February 2017.
> Gives a Master Class on Writing Librettos for Opera in the frame of Escuela de Invierno: Intensive Seminar about Creation in New Opera, organized by Fundación Williams directed by Miguel Galperín, August 2017.
> Seminar on Musical Theatre at Escuela del Festival, 16º FITB (Festival Iberoamericano de Teatro de Bogotá), Bogotá, Colombia, March 2018.
> Workshop “El Bosque de los textos. Aproximaciones a la escritura teatral sobre textos no teatrales” at the 10th anniversary of FILBA, Buenos Aires, July 2018.
> Gives a Master Class of Playwriting and Stage Direction, Centro Cultural del Bosque, Mexico City, March 2019.
> Gives a Master Class on the Relations between Music and Stage in the frame of Escuela de Invierno: Intensive Seminar about Creation in New Opera, organized by Fundación Williams directed by Miguel Galperín, August 2019.
> Gives a Special Seminar “El artista es otro” at the Art Department of University Torcuato di Tella, August – October, 2019
> Gives a Master Class about “Macbeth” by William Shakespeare with Andrés Rascovsky, Asociación Psicoanalítica Argentina, August 2019
> Gives the Master Class “Hamlet – Hamlet Machine / William Shakespeare - Heiner Müller” at the Auditorio Hugo Chávez, Pabellón Venezuela, Ciudad Universitaria, Córdoba, September 2019.
> Gives the Master Class “Ser bilingüe: entre el cuerpo y el texto” in the frame of FILBA 11, September 2019.
> Gives the Inaugural Lesson at the Period 2019 – 2020 at the Escuela de Arte Dramático de Castilla y de León (ESADCyL), Valladolid, Spain, October 2019.
> Gives a workshop for actors and directors at the Escuela de Arte Dramático de Castilla y de León (ESADCyL) on “Hamlet” by William Shakespeare and Hamletmachine by Heiner Müller, Valladolid, Spain, October 2019.
> Gives a workshop with playwrights from San Juan for the construction of an Anthology of Theatre Texts. The workshop is organised by Juan Francisco Lopez Bubica y Dana Botti: playwrights, actors and directors from San Juan.
> Participant of the event of “La noche de las ideas” with the Master Class “Hamlet – Hamlet Machine / William Shakespeare - Heiner Müller”; event organized by the French Institute Argentina and Fundación Medifé in the cities of Ostende and Mar del Plata, January 2020.
> Invited to a dialogue with Diego Berardo (Centro Cultural San Martín’s director) in the frame of the 50th anniversary of the Centro Cultural San Martín, June 2020.
> Begins a series of Instagram Lives around the book “Objeto Satie” by María Negroni with its author, sharing the work in progress of a future transdisciplinary experience about the fore mentioned book, October / November 2020.
> Invited to the cycle “Teatro en transición” in dialogue with Alfredo Sanzol, playwright and General Director from the Centro Dramático Nacional (Spain) organized by CCEBA (Centro Cultural de España en Buenos Aires) & Cooperación Española / Buenos Aires and coordinated by Puy Navarro, October 2020.
> Invited with Oscar Strasnoy, Irene Gelfman and Pablo Foladori to a talk about the limits and challenges of the Opera in the Contemporary Scene organized by the Festival Nueva Ópera, November 2020.
> Participant of the cycle of public talks about Posdrama organized by Maruja Bustamente Escuela, November 2020.
> Dictates the seminar “Una lectura de Hamlet”, February 2021.
> Dictates the seminar “La bondad de los extraños. Tres clases teóricas sobre Tennessee Williams”, April 2021.
> Dictates (with the collaboration of Ignacio Bartolone) a seminar for playwrights organised by the Piccolo Teatro di Milan, April / July 2021
> Dictates the seminar “Los esenciales, Una mirada al teatro musical en la obra de Bertolt Brecht” for Academia 4’33’’, July 2021
> Dictates the Workshop 2022 of Centro Teatrale Santacristina’s Summer School: “Towards the Construction of a Secret Society: from ‘Demons’ to ‘The Seven Mad Men’”. The activities from Santacristina are supported by Piccolo Teatro di Milano, LAC Lugano Arte e Cultura, ERT Emilia-Romagna Theatre Foundation, TPE Teatro Piemonte Europa and Fabulamundi Playwriting Europe. This project is supported by the Minister of Culture – Special Project 2022, June / July 2022.
> Dictates his cycle of three classes in the “N/n Dramaturgy Program”, Galería Acéfala Gallery, Buenos Aires, March 2023.
> Gives a Master Class: “Herramientas básicas de la dramaturgia”, Talleres FILBA Workshops, Alianza Francesa de Buenos Aires, October 2023.
> Together with Cristina Banegas, Lucas Margarit and Carlos Gamerro, participates in the presentation of Carlos Gamerro's new translation of William Shakespeare's “Macbeth”, published by Interzona at the Malba Museum, March 2024.
> He’s invited - together with Mariano Llinás, Marcelo Alasino and Ana Bizberge - to the cycle “Urgent Conversations: Teatro y Cine, formas de financiamiento y rol del Estado” organised by FILBA, March 2024.
> He’s invited as a reader to “La reconstrucción de mis cuentos” by Paula Cancela, Centro Cultural Konex, April 2024.
> Presents with Paula Hernández the movie “Marilú” directed by Sandrine Dumas at Bafici (Buenos Aires Independent Cinema Festival), April 2024.
> Invited by Ñ / Clarín at the Feria del Libro to a public interview with María Negroni on the Theatre adaptation of “El corazón del daño”, coordinated by Marcela Castro, April 2024.
> Invited to Feria del Libro by Pablo Bardauil for a talk about the Theatre adaptation of “El corazón del daño”, Buenos Aires’s City Stand, May 2024.
> Presents the book “Para hechizar a un cazador” by Luciano Lamberti, Winner of the Clarín Alfaguara Award 2024 with the autor, Ana María Shúa and Carlos Gamerro, Feria del Libro de Buenos Aires, May 2024.
> Invited by the Cathedra History of Theater I from Facultad de Filosofía y Letras to give a public talk, Universidad de Buenos Aires, May 2024.
> Invited to be part of a panel of Performing Arts Programmers within the framework of the celebrations of the “40 years of Rojas” – Cultural Center dependent on the University of Buenos Aires – of which he was part between the '90s and the 2000 as curator of the Theater Area, July 2024.
> Invited to read fragments of the play “Una noche con el señor Magnus e hijos” by Ricardo Monti within the cycle “La boca de un fusil” organized by the company “La Espada de Pasto”, El Galpón de Guevara, July 2024.
> Gives a talk at the Seminar on Psychoanalysis and Art organized by the CICBA Department of the Clinical Institute of Buenos Aires, coordinated by Andrea Zelaya; December 2024.
> Gives the Master Class “A Dialogue with the Dead. Around the book Tres clases” within the framework of Festival Eterno organized by FILBA and Eterna Cadencia, December 2024.
> Participates in the cycle “Cíclopes” and is invited to read with Fernanda Riveros and Josefina Licitra, Auditorio Jorge Luis Borges, Biblioteca Nacional, September 2025.
> Teaches the course “Del texto narrativo al texto teatral. El bosque de los textos” CELCIT - Argentina, September 2025.
> Participates in the talk “Inundar la zona de mierda. Las artes escénicas ante la ultraderecha” with Maruja Bustamante and Eva Palottini, coordinated by Ramiro Manduca in the frame of “Escenas emancipatorias” organized by Galpón FACE Buenos Aires, October 2025.

 

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