Cecilio Madanes

Cecilio Madanes (Ukraine, 2 December 1921 - Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1 April 2000) was a Ukrainian theater director, set designer, and producer.

[1] In 1947, he received a scholarship to France to continue his theater studies in Paris.

When the scholarship ended eight months later, Madanes settled in France for eight years, where he met Jean Cocteau and Georges Braque, and studied at the Conservatoire national supérieur d'art dramatique in Paris with Louis Jouvet.

The theater featured the works of Shakespeare, Molière, and García Lorca, among others, with the participation of leading Argentine actors such as Aida Luz and Beatriz Bonnet.

He directed several plays included Estrellas en el Avenida in 1961, starring Tita Merello, Tato Bores, Hugo del Carril, and María Antinea; Amadeus and Las relaciones peligrosas with Oscar Martinez and Cecilia Roth; and Equus, which launched the career of Miguel Angel Sola.