A founding member and the director of the Compañía delabarca, Nuria Alkorta has been professor of Interpretation at the Royal School of Advanced Dramatic Art in Madrid since 1999. She launched her teaching career in 1996 in Harvard’s Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, where she developed courses on the Spanish language, studied through classic dramatic texts. She holds the doctorate in Philology and is author of a dissertation titled From Thought to Performance in the Theater of Calderón. In the U.S. she has directed stagings in English of works by Calderón, Cervantes, Chekov, Brecht, Druas and Mamet. At the A.R.T. she served as directorial assistant to Andrei Serban, Scott Zigler and David Mamet. The Compañía delabarca, founded in 2008, is devoted to the recuperation, study and diffusion of the theater of Pedro Calderón de la Barca, as well as of playwrights attuned to the dramatic art and philosophical concerns of the author of Life Is a Dream. It was conceived, according to its director, as the focal point of a Center dedicated to research, interpretation and stage production of works written by the writer known as the Baroque’s “Monster Wit”.
In Spanish
En colaboración con el Departamento de Lenguas y Literaturas Romances de la Universidad de Harvard y con la Subdirección General de Promoción Exterior del Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deporte de España