Carlota Ferrer

Carlota Ferrer
Born1976 (age 49–50)
El Escorial, Spain
EducationRESAD
OccupationsTheater director, actress, choreographer
Awards

Carlota Ferrer (born 1976) is a Spanish theater director, actress, and choreographer.

Biography

Carlota Ferrer was born in El Escorial in 1976.

She is a multidisciplinary artist, actress, stage director, assistant director, choreographer, and acting coach.

A devoted follower of Metrópolis [es], TVE2's arts and culture program, she began imitating local people and inventing characters from a young age, which she then performed for family and friends. She started dancing as well, and although she had already dabbled in theater in El Escorial, in her final year of high school she decided to study acting at the Teatro de la Danza in San Sebastián de los Reyes, as well as contemporary dance. Later, she enrolled at RESAD, where she earned a degree in stage direction and dramaturgy. She combined her directing studies with an acting career at the Teatro de La Abadía [es] in Madrid.

At La Abadía, she has been assistant director to José Luis Gómez, Krystian Lupa, and Àlex Rigola, and has acted in Al final todos nos encontraremos, Me acordaré de todos vosotros, and Ubú rey. Her last acting role was at the 2011 Venice Biennale workshops in the play Slow Lie, directed by Jan Lauwers.

In 2015, she was one of the creators of LaZonaKubik, an initiative with which the production company Lazona and the Kubik Fabrik theater aimed to revolutionize the creation and production model of alternative theater. Ferrer worked on the play Fortune Cookie, whose central theme is the prophecies and proverbs that appear on Chinese fortune cookies.

In 2017, she was appointed artistic director of the Corral de comedias de Alcalá de Henares. In its 2018-2019 season she premiered Esto no es La casa de Bernarda Alba (This is Not The House of Bernarda Alba), a three-way adaptation of the classic play, performed by men in female roles, seeking to break down gender barriers and paying homage to Federico García Lorca.

In 2019, she was appointed director of the Madrid Autumn Festival [es]. However, she was dismissed from the role that December. The regional government's Department of Culture stated that the move was "mutually agreed", but Ferrer later characterized it as "a unilateral political decision."

Awards

References

  1. 1 2 "La actriz y directora Carlota Ferrer, Premio El Ojo Crítico de RNE de Teatro" (in Spanish). RTVE. 27 October 2015. Archived from the original on 18 April 2026. Retrieved 3 August 2026.
  2. ↑ del Barrio, Ana (19 September 2022). "Carlota Ferrer: 'No me parece bien que Vox se apodere de los toros'" [Carlota Ferrer: "I don't think it's right that Vox is taking over bullfighting"]. El Mundo (in Spanish). Madrid. Retrieved 4 August 2026.
  3. ↑ Hernández Nieto, Antonio. "Carlota Ferrer, una currante de la poesía teatral" [Carlota Ferrer, a Hard Worker in Theatrical Poetry]. Woman's Soul (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 3 August 2025. Retrieved 3 August 2026.
  4. ↑ Vila, José-Miguel (24 March 2018). "Carlota Ferrer, (codirectora del Corral de Comedias de Alcalá): 'Me encantan los toros, aunque me gustaría odiarlos'" [Carlota Ferrer, (Co-Director of the Corral de Comedias in Alcalá): "I love bullfighting, although I would like to hate it"]. Diario Crítico (in Spanish). Retrieved 4 August 2026.
  5. ↑ "Carlota Ferrer". Círculo de Bellas Artes. 29 July 2015. Retrieved 4 August 2026.
  6. ↑ García, Rocío (1 February 2013). "'El teatro tiene que ser incómodo'" ["Theater has to be uncomfortable"]. El País (in Spanish). Retrieved 4 August 2026.
  7. ↑ "'Las crisis movilizan hacia el cambio'- Carlota Ferrer, directora y actriz". draft.inn (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 29 November 2022. Retrieved 4 August 2026.
  8. ↑ "LaZonaKubik, un 'laboratorio' de artes escénicas" [LaZonaKubik, a Performing Arts "Laboratory"]. La Vanguardia (in Spanish). Madrid. EFE. 15 January 2015. Retrieved 4 August 2026.
  9. ↑ "Darío Facal y Carlota Ferrer, coordinadores artísticos del Corral de Comedias". Dream! Alcalá (in Spanish). 27 October 2017. Retrieved 4 August 2026.
  10. ↑ "Carlota Ferrer y Darío Facal inauguran temporada en el Corral de Comedias de Alcalá" [Carlota Ferrer and Darío Facal Inaugurate Season at the Corral de Comedias de Alcalá]. Revista Godot (in Spanish). 5 October 2018. Archived from the original on 8 September 2025. Retrieved 4 August 2026.
  11. ↑ "Carlota Ferrer sobre su salida del Festival de Otoño: 'Me hubiera gustado que no fuera así, fue bastante duro y triste'" [Carlota Ferrer on Her Departure From the Autumn Festival: "I wish it hadn't been like that; it was quite hard and sad"]. La Vanguardia (in Spanish). Madrid. Europa Press. 5 February 2020. Retrieved 4 August 2026.
  12. ↑ "Bajo el agua no existe el fracaso" [Underwater, There is no Failure] (in Spanish). Madrid: Cadena SER. 6 November 2015. Archived from the original on 13 November 2015. Retrieved 4 August 2026.