Eduardo del Olmo: Author and Performer
Eduardo
del Olmo
is an actor, comic, teacher, director and playwright, who is based in NYC
thanks to the Fulbright
Grant for the Arts and
is currently conducting his research in the performing arts with Susan
Batson.
After
graduating as an actor at CNC-Cristina Rota, Eduardo became co-artistic
director of Madrid’s
longest running show, Katarsis
del Tomatazo
and for two seasons led a cast of over 50 actors.
He
was awarded the Diputación Provincial de Valladolid 2007 Award, which
brought him to New York to study method acting with John Strasberg. In 2015 he
received the SGAE
Foundation Scholarship, where
he travelled to Buenos Aires to study playwriting with Marco
Antonio de la Parra. Other
studies include voice with Vincente
Fuentes (RESAD); on camera technique with Eduardo Milevicz,
Jaime Chávarri
and Marcelo Mangone in
Mexico and playwriting with Alberto Conejero,
to name a few. In addition, Eduardo has two University degrees:
Bachelor of Law and Business Studies (UC3M) and Master of
History and Aesthetics of Cinema (UVA).
As a teacher
Eduardo has taught Film History at the Juan Codina
Studio and the Parla
Theater Public School, On camera Technique at JC Actors and UCA and
Communication Techniques for Senior Executives at Di-Towanda and Madrid City
Hall,
Madrid Emprende.
In theater he
has worked with Gerardo Vera (former director of the National
Theatre),
Albert Boadella
(former
director of Madrid Canal Theatre), Natalia Menéndez
(Almagro Classical
Theatre
Festival Director), Luis Luque, Andrea D'Odorico,
Juan Carlos Pérez
de la Fuente (former
director of the National Theatre), Chevi
Muraday
(National Best Dancer Award), Jesús
Amate
and La Casa Incierta
(specialists in plays for babies). Eduardo
participated
as an actor in ‘Actions
In
The Body’ of Bestué-Vives,
which is part of the catalog of the Reina Sofía Museum of Contemporary Art.
In cinema he
has starred in ‘0o’ in Toronto and ‘The Tree Of
Desires’,
which won Best European Marketing Action Award at the Advertising Festival of
Cannes 2008. He has collaborated in television series
such as ‘La Que
Lo
Se Avecina’,
‘Anclados’,
‘B & B’, ‘Los Hombres
De
Paco’
and ‘Lalola’.
As a director,
Eduardo debuted in 2010 with ‘The Exquisites’, his first online series that
participated in Columbia’s Zinema
Zombie Festival 2011 and
‘Cuki
Colorinchi
Evolution’ a six time award winning documentary at national festivals. From
then on, his production company Shady Machine has made several short films:
‘Black Gold’, ‘Waiters’,
‘The Wig’, ‘7 Letters’ and ‘The Lunatic’.
As
a writer
he
has written the feature film, ‘Los
Favoritos’,
the stage play, ‘La Buscona
Y
El Comediante’,
the stand up comedy show, ‘No Os
Quedéis
Con Las Ganas’,
the performance piece, ‘¿Quieres
Conocer
Tu
Muerte?’ and
a play for children about gender equality, ‘Aurora En La Noche
His company Ninja
Performers received the 2007
Best Original Playwright
Award (SGAE and FCNC ) with
the internationally performed piece ‘Vigilio
And Lánguis,
The Tragedy Of The Girl Who Is About To Fall
Asleep’.
The company has also developed two projects of cultural cooperation for the
coordination and diffusion of the performing arts in Latin America in
collaboration with AECID
(Mexico,
2009 - Cuba, 2010). Their next project is ‘Alien
Bodies’
about sexual diversity and cultural construction of gender.
Eduardo
currently works in the fields of stand up comedy,
performance which
includes collaborating with the researchers Memorias
en Red at
the Conference on industrialization, death and everyday life in Matadero de Madrid,
and video
art with
his piece ‘Dulcilicio’
premiering in the Video Creations Exhibition on The
Ideal Woman of
the Festival
Almagro 2016,
as part of the National Commission of the IV Centenary of the death of
Cervantes, with the support of AECID.
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