Was born in Terrassa (Barcelona) in 1963. In 1986, he gained a
degree in French and Romance Philology from the Universitat Autònoma in Barcelona,
where he was a founding member of the Aula de Teatre in 1984. Since 1988, he has taught
Drama Technique at the Institut del Teatre in Barcelona. He has recently been appointed
artistic director of the Teatre Nacional de Catalunya, and will take
up this role in 2006.
Sergi Belbel is the author
of the following plays, among others: Calidoscopios y faros de hoy (1985); La nit del
Cigne (1986); Dins la seva
memòria (1986); Minim.mal
Show
(1987), with Miquel
Górriz; Elsa Schneider (1987); Òpera (1988); En companyia
d’abisme
[Deep
Down]
(1988); Tàlem [Fourplay] (1989); Carícies [Caresses] (1991); Després de la
pluja
[After
the Rain]
(1993); Morir (1994); Al mateix
lloc (1996–97); Sóc lletja (1997), with Jordi
Sánchez, La sang [Blood] (1998); El temps de Planck (1999); Això no és
vida,
(2003), with Albert
Espinosa and David Plana; Forasters [‘Blow‑ins’] (2003) and Mòbil (2005).
He has translated works by
Racine,
Georges Perec, Bernard‑Marie Koltès, Molière, etc. into Catalan. He
has written scripts for television – Secrets de Família and Ivern – and cinema, and
has directed for stage both his own texts (Minim.mal Show, Òpera, En
companyia d’abisme, Tàlem, Carícies, Després de la pluja, Homes!, Soc lletja,
Morir, El temps de Planck, Forasters), as well as by other
authors (Georges Perec, José Sanchis Sinisterra, Samuel Beckett, Josep M. Benet
i Jornet, Angel Guimerà, William Shakespeare,
Carlo Goldoni, Molière, Neil Simon, David
Mamet, Normand Chaurette, Calderón de
la Barca, David Plana, Jardiel Poncela, Bernard‑Marie Koltès, Eduardo De
Filippo, Jordi Galceran, Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur, Jean‑Michel
Ribes and Marivaux). He
has also directed Gioacchino Rossini’s opera Il viaggio a Reims.
Among the many prizes he has won, the following
are most notable: Marqués de Bradomín, 1986; Nacional Ignasi Iglésias, 1987; Ojo Crítico de RNE, 1992; Nacional de Literatura
Dramática de la Generalitat
de Catalunya,
1993–95; Serra d’Or, 1994; Nacional de Literatura
Dramática del Ministerio de Cultura Español, 1996; Molière, 1999; Nacional de Teatre de la Generalitat de Catalunya, 2000; Max de la Artes
Escénicas, 2002; and Teatre BCN, 2004–2005.
