Eduard Olesti
Writer
Eduard Olesti is a graduate in Hispanic Philology from the University of Barcelona and has never completed his Direction and Dramaturgy studies at the Institut del Teatre. Winner of the 2022 Amadeu Oller Poetry Prize, for his poetry collection Sarcop. He is a curator at the Sala d’Art Jove with the bord collective, with which he co-created the situations Apunts teoricopràctics sobre la festa dels súpers (Arts Santa Mònica) and Fenomenologia dels fenòmens de masses u: el libdup (Fundació Brossa). He is co-founder of the company trashèdia AP-7, which won the DespertaLab 2022 grant, and is resident at Nau Ivanow. Dramaturg of Hit Me Fascism One More Time (in residence at the Replika theatre in Bucharest), Rentadora, gira mundial (Nau Ivanow), No tenim ni idea de què és el teatre (FAT), El Congrés de l’Acomodació (Festival Escena Poble Nou), El recel dels núvols (Ses Salines Award) and Una fruita estranya (Roca Umbert). He has worked as assistant director to Albert Mestres and co-created the performance It’s a bit John Cagey (Divadlo Archa, Prague). He has written for magazines such as Branca, The posttraumatic and Khaleido.
Update: 31 January 2023