Escalada has a Bachelor of Interpretation and Direction of Scene and Dramaturgy at the Royal School of Dramatic Arts (RESAD).
He began his acting career in the Pequeño Taller de Teatro (PTT).
Since 2008 he is exclusively dedicated to the writing, research and teaching of dramatic art: Dramaturgy and interpretation.
He has been awarded on several occasions, highlighting the award of the Sociedad General de Autores y Editores to his work Invierno (Winter) belonging to the Tetralogy of the Four Seasons.
He has directed Oscar Wilde's A Woman Without Importance', Marc-Gilbert Sauvajon's Le Canard à l'orange based on William Douglas Home's The Secretary Bird, Brandon Thomas's Charley's Aunt, Chazz Palmintieri's Faithful, etc.