Alejandro Sieveking

Alejandro Sieveking Campano (5 September 1934 – 5 March 2020) was a Chilean playwright, theatre director and actor.

Sieveking was born in the Chilean city of Rengo (in the O'Higgins Region) on 5 September 1934.

[1] He was one of the founders of the Teatro del Ángel (Angel Theatre Company) in Chile and in Costa Rica, where he settled and worked as a political exile.

In 1974 he was awarded the "Casa de Las Américas" prize for his Pequeños animales abatidos (Small game hunt).

[3] “La remolienda” is one of the most important classics of Chilean theatrical comedy.In addition to holding university posts and being involved in television projects, he was vice-president of the Academia Chilena de Bellas Artes.