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Angélica Liddell
Angélica Liddell
Born	Catalina Angélica González Cano; 2 October 1966; Figueres, Catalonia, Spain
Nationality	Spanish
Genre	theatre, poetry, prose

Angélica Liddell (born Catalina Angélica González Cano in 2 October 1966) is a Spanish writer, theatre director and actor.

Biography

Catalina Angélica González Cano was born in Figueres, Catalonia, and went on to study psychology and dramatic arts. Liddell began writing plays during the 1980s. In 1993, she founded the theatre company Atra Bilis Teatro.^[1]

Her works have been performed in Spain, Germany, Brazil, France and Chile; her work been translated into French, English, Portuguese, German, Polish and Russian. Besides plays for theatre, she writes poetry and prose.^[2]^[1]

Awards and honours

The Casa de América Innovative Playwriting Award in 2003;
Second prize for the Lope de Vega Award in 2007;
The Valle-Inclán Award for Theatre [es] in 2008;
Nominated for the Europe Prize Theatrical Realities of the Europe Theatre Prize since 2011;^[3]
The National Dramatic Literature Award, Spain in 2012 for La casa de la fuerza;^[2]
The Silver Lion at the Venice Biennale in 2013.^[1]

Selected plays

La falsa suicida (2000)
Once upon a time in West Asphixia (2002)
Y cómo no se pudrió Blancanieves (2005)
Perro muerto en tintorería: los Fuertes (2007)
Ping Pang Qiu (2013)^[4]
Alice Syndrome (2013)
¿Qué haré yo con esta espada? (2016)^[5]
Esta breve tragedia de la carne (This Brief Tragedy of the Flesh), 2018. Alexander Kasser Theater (New Jersey, NJ)^[6]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "Angélica Liddell". LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial.
^ ^a ^b "Angélica Liddell". Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport.
^ "Candidati PERT". Premio Europa per il Teatro (in Italian). Retrieved 2024-05-23.
^ "Angélica Liddell". Berliner Festspiele.
^ "De la catharsis à l'exorcisme". Les Trois Coups (in French). July 14, 2016.
^ Vincentelli, Elisabeth (20 April 2018). "Review: A Spanish Stage Provocateur Makes a Blood-Dripping Debut". The New York Times. Retrieved 20 January 2019 – via NYTimes.com.