Maruja Bustamante, born in 1978 in Buenos Aires, is an actress of TV, cinema, theater, playwright, and lives in Buenos Aires.

Maruja Bustamante

Biography

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Maruja Bustamante trained as an actress with Helena Tritek and was her assistant at the first staging of Jorge Accame's Venecia in 1998. Since 2001 she premiered her first play as a director, with Esteban Meloni and Sebastián Mogordoy Fronterizos (2001) at Teatro Por la Identidad.[1] She graduated from the playwriting career of the Metropolitan School of Dramatic Arts in Buenos Aires.[2] She's part of the Royal Court program to Latin American authors.[3]

In 2008 she's part of the program Panorama Work In Progress with her play Adela is hunting ducks (original title: Adela está cazando patos)[4] gets her the award Trinidad Guevara Best Author (2009) and Best Costume Design (2009). Also is decorated with Award of Stimulus María Guerrero Award (2009), Best Photography and the yearly Municipal Playwriting Award of the City of Buenos Aires (2009–2016). In 2010 she debuts Paraná Porá, praised by critics and the academy, a piece written in Spanish and Guarani. The piece earned her awards as the Trinidad Guevara Award, and awards in national and international theater festivals in Argentina, Costa Rica and Spain.

She wrote and directed the episodic saga The Legend of Lis Chi (2013) in the theater 25 de Mayo (Villa Urquiza) part of the Complejo Cultural San Martin, and Roja Roja (2017) in the Teatro Regio, both co-written with Gael Policano Rossi.[5] Her playwright work was reunited on the book Hija Boba (Blatt & Río, 2014).[6]

Filmography

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Actress

Theater

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Teatro
Year Title Role Author
2007 No me iré sin Mirtha Author / Director Maruja Bustamante
2008 Adela está cazando patos Author / Director Maruja Bustamante
2008 Mayoría Author / Director Maruja Bustamante
2009 Nena no robarás Director Dani Umpi
2010 Paraná Porá Author / Director Maruja Bustamante
2011 La Reina del Maíz Director Damian Bojorque
2012 Trabajo para lobos Author / Director Maruja Bustamante
2013 Dios tenía algo guardado para nosotros Author / Director Maruja Bustamante
2014 Maruja enamorada Actress Vivi Tellas

References

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  1. ^ "Teatro por la identidad". LATIN AMERICAN THEATRE REVIEW. Retrieved 25 February 2017.
  2. ^ "Territorio Teatral" (PDF). Territorio Teatral – Revista Digital. Retrieved 25 February 2017.
  3. ^ "Complejo Teatral de Buenos Aires". Complejo Teatral de Buenos Aires. Retrieved 25 February 2017.
  4. ^ "Ojos al Mundo Teatro. Jóvenes críticos en el VII FIBA =". Complejo Teatral de Buenos Aires. Retrieved 25 February 2017.
  5. ^ "El Cultural San Martín". Complejo Teatral de Buenos Aires. Retrieved 25 February 2017.
  6. ^ "Hija boba y otras obras". Blatt & Ríos. Retrieved 25 February 2017.