Juan Mayorga

Juan Mayorga (1965, Madrid) Fotó: Javier Naval.
Graduated in Philosophy and Mathematics, he has studied Dramaturgy with Marco Antonio de la Parra, José Sanchis Sinisterra and at the Royal Court Theater International Summer School in London. He has been a professor of Mathematics in Madrid and Alcalá de Henares, a professor of Dramaturgy and Philosophy at the Royal Higher School of Dramatic Art in Madrid and director of the seminar Memory and Thought in Contemporary Theater at the Institute of Philosophy of the CSIC. 
He has given playwriting workshops and conferences on theater and philosophy in various countries. He has been a member of the editorial board of the magazine “Primer Acto” and founder of the theater collective “El Astillero”. 
He is currently Director of the Chair of Performing Arts at the Carlos III University of Madrid and artistic director of the Teatro de la Abadía and the Corral de Comedias de Alcalá de Henares.

Among others, he has won the Princess of Asturias Award (2022), National Theater Award (2007), National Dramatic Literature Award (2013), Valle-Inclán (2009), Ceres (2013), La Barraca (2013), Max Award for Best Author (2006, 2008 and 2009) and Best Adaptation (2008 and 2013) and Europe Award for New Theatrical Realities (2016). 

He is the author of multiple theatrical texts, among others: Nocturnal Animals, The Boy in the Back Row, made into a film by François Ozon; Darwin’s Turtle, The Tongue in Pieces, The Cartographer, Silence and The Golem. He has written versions of texts by Calderón, Lope, Shakespeare, Lessing, Dostoevsky, Chekhov, Ibsen, Kafka and Dürrenmatt. His work has been released in thirty countries and translated into twenty languages.