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Between 1985 and 1990, he was Full Professor of Spanish Literature in the Hispanic Studies Department at the University of Amsterdam. At present, he holds the same position in the Hispanic Literatures Department at UCM. He has been Director of Courses for Overseas Students at UCM. He is founder and was the director for ten years of the Instituto del Teatro de Madrid. He has led 11 R&D research projects and overseen close on 40 doctoral dissertations. He has organised summer courses at UCM and the Menéndez Pelayo International University, and has given conferences at numerous overseas universities. He has formed part of the Reading Council of the Spanish National Classical Theatre Company. He specialised in short theatre and in festive literature from the Golden Ages, a subject on which he has published several books: Teatro breve de los siglos XVI y XVII, Antología del teatro breve del siglo XVII, El nuevo mundo de la risa, Una fiesta burlesca del siglo de oro and El teatro breve en la Edad de Oro. He is also editor of the books entitled: Formas carnavalescas en el arte y la literatura, Al margen de la Ilustración. Cultura popular, arte y literatura en el siglo XVIII, Diccionario de personajes de Calderón, Diccionario de personajes de Tirso de Molina and Diccionario de personajes de Moret. He co-authored Los géneros literarios. Sistema e Historia with Antonio García Berrio. His other publications include El teatro medieval y renacentista, De Poética y política. Nueva lectura del Canto personal, de Leopoldo Panero, Historia de mil y un juanes. Onomástica y Folklore (with José Luis Alonso Hernández) and Teatro español (de la A la Z). He has also written several articles on Ramón de la Cruz, Arniches, Gutiérrez Solana, the poetry of Leopoldo Panero, Rafael Morales, Antonio Colinas, the narrative of Antonio Pereira, Luis Mateo Díez, and the theatre of Ernesto Caballero, Juan Mayorga, Carmen Resino, Ignacio Amestoy, among other topics. He has edited Entremeses by Cervantes; Teatro fantástico by Benavente; and Obra dramática completa by Juan Gutiérrez Gili, as well as El público by Federico García Lorca; El puente by Carlos Gorostiza; and En lo oscuro by L. Panero. He is the director of Historia del teatro español in two volumes and Historia del teatro breve en España. As part of the R&D project he currently leads on the Spanish University Theatre (TEU), he has coordinated various publications: El Teatro Universitario Español: espacios de libertad durante el franquismo, Fuente Ovejuna: pervivencia de un clásico and Teatro y Falange. Fundamentos ideológicos del Teatro Español Universitario.
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2629-5631 Pablo Iglesias Simón (Madrid, 1977) graduated in Stage Direction from the Royal Higher College of Performing Arts in Madrid (RESAD). He won the Extraordinary Award for his doctorate in Audiovisual Communication at the Complutense University of Madrid, with the thesis Trasvases discursivos del teatro de finales del siglo XIX y principios del XX al Cine Primitivo y al Cine Clásico de Hollywood. In 2010, he finished his studies in Magic and Illusionism having completed all three levels at the Gran Escuela de Magia de "Ana Tamariz".
In July 2017, he was appointed Director of the Royal Higher College of Performing Arts in Madrid (RESAD). Having taught postgraduate courses in a range of theatrical subjects and Film Production for the Faculty of Information Sciences, he is currently a full professor at RESAD’s Department of Stage Direction, of which he was head between 2008 and 2013.
He has been the Vice President of the Spanish Association of Higher Artistic Education Centres (Asociación Española de Centros Superiores de Enseñanzas Artísticas - ACESA) since July 2017.
In the theatre, he has worked as a stage director, sound-space designer and playwright. He began directing plays by contemporary authors such as Heiner Müller and Sarah Kane but in 2002, decided to begin producing his own plays and versions, presenting his montage 11-N_11-E at the Festival Escena Contemporánea. In November 2009, he premièred El lado oeste del Golden Gate, which won him the 2010 "José Luis Alonso" Award for Young Directors. The last play he directed was Modelos animales, his own drama based on a story by Aixa de la Cruz, which premièred at the Sala Cuarta Pared in Madrid. He has designed the sound-space for around twenty theatrical productions, working for both private companies and the Centro Dramático Nacional. He has also published the plays 11-N, Sin móvil aparente, shortlisted for the III Teatro Exprés Prize in 2002, Alicia frente al espejo, Tu imagen sola, winner of the XIX Teatro Carlos Arniches-Ciudad de Alicante Prize in 2003, El lado oeste del Golden Gate, shortlisted for the XXXIII ‘Born’ Theatre Prize in 2008, and Justo en medio del paralelo 38, shortlisted for the XXXVI ‘Born’ Theatre Prize in 2011.
He combines his teaching and artistic activities with research in the field of theatre and cinematography, presenting his findings at conferences and seminars in Spain, France and Chile, and in the publication of more than twenty articles for numerous specialist magazines in Spain and Brazil. He has written two books, Postproducción digital de sonido por ordenador (which was republished in Mexico for circulation in Latin America with the title Postproducción digital de sonido por computadora), and De las tablas al celuloide, winner of the 2008 "Leandro Fernández de Moratín" Award for theatrical studies. He has also contributed to the collective works Análisis de la dramaturgia, Cinema i teatre: influències i contagis, Creadores jóvenes en el ámbito teatral, Teatro y música en los inicios del siglo XXI and Être ou ne pas être…quantique: Le théâtre contemporain à l’épreuve de la physique moderne.
Between 2016 and 2019 he wrote comic book reviews for Godot Magazine.