La Bella Otero


In 2020, Pablo Macho Otero and Emma Arquillué joined forces to found the company La Bella Otero with the aim of addressing complex themes in an entertaining way. Their first show is Burying Dodot, an absurdist dystopia straddling Beckettian theater and the Black Mirror universe, which premiered at the Teatre La Gleva in Barcelona in January 2021, after having been part of the Samuel Beckett Cycle at the Sala Beckett as a staged reading.At the end of 2021, it premiered at the Sala Tarambana in Madrid and had a second run in Barcelona at the Teatre Tantarantana.In early 2022, it won the D’Ensayo Prize for Theater and Science from the Zaragoza City Council.

Their second project is Loco Amoris, an autofictional work about a long-distance relationship between Paris and Barcelona that reflects on the fictional dimension of love.It premiered in May 2021 at the Teatre Tantarantana, where it had a second run in the fall of 2021. It then premiered at the Teatro Lara in Madrid in the fall of 2022 and was part of the Temporada Alta Festival in Girona, the 20th Circuit of the Network of Alternative Theatres, the Insòmnia Festival by the Balañá Group, and the Temporada Alta Festivals in Buenos Aires, Montevideo, and Lima.After a tour of Catalonia, it returned to Barcelona for a run at the Sala Versus Glòries in the fall of 2023. The third show is George Kaplan by Frédéric Sonntag, which premiered in March 2023 at the Teatre Tantarantana.The project consisted of a new translation and adaptation of the text that, since its French premiere in 2011, has toured the world and become a kind of “contemporary classic” about the use of fiction as a weapon of mass manipulation.A Fuego is the company's fourth project, which premiered in June 2023 at the Teatre La Gleva.During the 2023-2024 season, the show was part of the Temporada Alta Festival in Buenos Aires, Montevideo, and Lima, the dFeria Festival in San Sebastián, and the Off Festival at La Villarroel.In the 2024-2025 season, it was part of the 22nd Circuit of the Network of Alternative Theatres, returned to the Off Festival at La Villarroel, and premiered in Madrid at the Teatro de la Abadía.The company's latest project is Prosopopeya, which premiered in January 2025 at the Espai Lliure of the Teatre Lliure in Barcelona.A multidisciplinary piece in verse that blends different theatrical forms, it uses mirrors, masks, and faces to explore the mystery of the self.

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Origin : Cataluña
Gender : Theater
Public : Adult

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(Cangas de Narcea, Asturias, 1994) Playwright, director, and actor.A graduate in Hispanic Philology from the University of Barcelona, ​​he trained as an actor at the Nancy Tuñón Studio in Barcelona and the Jacques Lecoq International School in Paris.He completed much of his playwriting training at the Sala Beckett Workshop in Barcelona, ​​working with authors such as Alfredo Sanzol, Javier Daulte, and Sergio Blanco.After participating in the “Els Malnascuts” creative workshop at Sala Beckett and collaborating on collective works such as Esquerdes (Sala Beckett, 2014), Odisseus (Sala Beckett, 2016-17), Si au si (Temporada Alta Festival, 2016), and La Trinxera (Sala Flyhard, 2017), he was selected as a member of Studio Europeén, an international gathering of young playwrights organized by Enzo Cormann at La Chartreuse (Centre national des écritures du spectacle).In 2018, he received the Miguel Hernández International University Poetry Prize for his first collection of poems, ZOE antilogía.After two years of training in Paris, he returned to Barcelona in 2019 and, with actress Emma Arquillué and set designer Yaiza Ares, founded the company La Bella Otero, where he alternates between the roles of playwright, director, translator, and actor.He is the author of Burying Dodot (2021), Loco Amoris (2021), On Fire (2023), and Prosopopoeia (2025).Outside of the company, his most recent commissions include a new verse adaptation of Molière's The Misanthrope, directed by David Selvas (Grec Festival / Teatre Lliure, 2024), and a new translation of Yasmina Reza's God of Carnage, directed by Pere Arquillué.He also teaches acting and works as a voice actor for film and television.
(Terrassa, 1995) Actress and producer, graduated from the Institut del Teatre de Barcelona in the specialty of Text Interpretation (2021) and graduated in the Postgraduate Program in Production and Management of Shows and Festivals of the UB and IL-3 Institute of Continuing Education (2022).Her works as a theater actress are Cyrano de Bergerac (Biblioteca de Catalunya, 2012), La Trinxera (Sala Flyhard, 2017), Burying Dodot (Teatre La Gleva, 2021), La Malaltia (Teatre Lliure, 2021), Loco Amoris (Teatre Tantarantana, 2021), Salvació Total Imminent Immediata Terrestrei Col·lectiva (Sala Beckett, 2022), Romeu i Julieta (Teatre Poliorama, 2022) for which she was awarded the Butaca award for best new actress, La casa sin Bernarda (Fundació Brossa, 2022), George Kaplan (Teatre Tantarantana, 2023), Casa Calores (Sala Beckett, 2024), Un Matrimoni de Boston (LaVillarroel, 2024) and La TerceraFuga (Teatre Nacional de Catalunya, 2025).As founder of La Bella Otero, she has produced all of the company's shows and co-directed A Fuego (Teatre La Gleva, 2023) and Prosopopeya (Teatre Lliure, 2025).In audiovisual media, her most recent works include the series Buga Buga, La última noche del Karaoke, Com si fos ahir, Los Herederos de la Tierra, and Citas Barcelona T2.She is also a voice actress and advertising narrator.

Funded by the European Union-Next Generation EU
Project financed by INAEM, Ministry of Culture and Sports
With the help of the Madrid City Council