Lluïsa Cunillé

[1] A student of the playwright José Sanchis Sinisterra, she trained in the textual dramaturgy seminars given by him at the Sala Beckett [es] in Barcelona between 1990 and 1993.

[2] In collaboration with Paco Zarzoso, she has written and premiered Intempèrie (1996), Viajeras (2001), and Húngaros (2002).

[3] Cunillé was one of fifteen authors who wrote the production Sopa de Radio, a programme with which Cadena SER commemorated the 75th anniversary of the birth of radio in Spain.

[2] Cunillé premiered numerous theatrical works in Catalan and in Spanish: Molt novembre (1993), La festa (1994), Libración (1994, Barcelona Critics Award 1993–1994), Accident (1996, Award of the Institution of Lletres Catalanes, 1997), Apocalipsi (1998), The affair (1999, Ciutat d'Alcoi Award 1998), La cita (1999), Passage Gutenberg (2000, Barcelona Critic Award 1999–2000), Vacants (2000 ), El gat negre (2001), L'anniversari (2001, Premi Born de Teatre 1999), and Aquel aire infinito (2003), Barcelona, mapa d'ombres (2004), among many others.

[3] She won, among others, the Ciutat de Lleida theatre award (1997) with Doze treballs; the Premio Ciudad de Barcelona [es] (2005) with Barcelona, mapa d'ombres; the Premios Max Award for the best playwright in Spanish (2007) also for Barcelona, mapa d'ombres; the Lletra D'Or Award (2008) for Après moi, le déluge.