Artisitc Council

The Artistic Council is a body created within the foundation to welcome new member festivals to the organisation.

Montse has been serving as Director of Festival Shakespeare since 2007, where she had been working as an assistant to Director since the Festival´s founding in 2003.

 

From 2008 she has been Manager of the Drama School´s Interpretation Department at the Institut del Teatre de la Diputació de Barcelona, where she has also been teaching voice since 1996, as well as in other academies in Catalunya.

 

As an actress, since 1991 she has performed in several plays such as: Madame Melville Dir. Àngel Llàcer. Teatre Borràs ( nominated as an Actress to Butaca’s Award in Catalonia); El Somni d’una nit d’estiu. Dir. Àngel Llàcer. Teatre Borràs. Teatre Principal;  Un ram de mar from J.Ruyra´s piece. Dir. Joan Castells. Teatre Nacional de Catalunya; 20 sonets de Shakespeare directed by Xicu Masó, on tour in Catalunya; Món Brossa from Joan Brossa´s piece. Dir. Franco di Francescoantonio. Teatre Nacional de Catalunya;  Jean Anouilh´s Antígona. Dir. Roberto Romei. Teatre Tantarantana; Àngel Guimerà´s Terra Baixa. Dir. Ferran Madico. Teatre Nacional de Catalunya; Violació de límits. From Manuel de Pedrolo writings. Dir. Joan Castells. Sala Beckett. Sala Muntaner; Ignasi Iglésias´ La Barcanova. Dir. Joan Castells. Teatre Nacional de Catalunya; Untretal’aire from Teatre Mim de la Brume. Dir. Jordi Basora. Sitges Teatre Internacional;  Preversions, from J. Prévert writings. Cia. Parracs. Dir. Joan Castells. Espai Escènic Joan Brossa; Tankred Dorst´s Gran imprecació davant la muralla de la ciutat. Dir. Jaime Hanson. Teatre Adrià Gual; Parracs de Brecht with the company Parracs. Playwright and director, Joan Castells. Premiere at the Tàrrega theatre Festival, 1996. Festival Internacional de Sitges, 1997; Històries de Pierrot with Teatre mim de la Brume. Dir. Jordi Basora. Premiere at ^Sibenik Children’s Festival (Croatia);  Queen of Hearts, Produced by HTV Drama. Cardiff (Wales).

 

Since 1996 she has performed in hundreds of readings, recitings and poetry presentations from authors such as: Hölderlin, Georg Trakl, William Shakespeare, Bertold Brecht, Horaci, Giacomo Leopardi, Rainer Maria Rilke, Aurelie Nemours, Alejandra Pizarnic, Danielle Collobert, Brane Mozetic, Elizabeth Barret Browning, Anise Koltz, Giusepe Ungareti, Víctor Sunyol, Ausiàs March, Toni Clapés, Joan Brossa, Feliu Formosa, Agustí Bartra, Salvat Papasseit, Sam Abrams, Bartomeu Rosselló Pòrcel, Màrius Torres, Joan Sales, Salvador Espriu, Joan Vinyoli, amongst others.