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Leonor Courtoisie
Biography
Leonor Courtoisie is a theatre artist and writer. She is a graduate of the Escuela Multidisciplinaria de Arte Dramático Margarita Xirgu and the Universidad de la República, Montevideo, where she completed a BA in Playwriting, and of the Diploma in Creative Writing at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. In 2019 she received the Premio Molière, awarded by the French Embassy in Uruguay. She was resident at the Cité International des Arts, Paris, in 2022, and has been a member since 2019 of the Directors Lab at the Lincoln Center, New York. Her credits as a playwright and director include Estudio para La mujer desnuda (Study for The Naked Woman,
Comedia Nacional, Montevideo, 2022) and Casi sin pedir permiso (Almost without Asking Permission, Montevideo, 2019), among others. Her published works include the play Corte de obsidiana (Obsidian Cut, 2017), the poetry collection Todas esas cosas siguen vivas (All Those Things are Still Alive, 2020), and the novel Irse yendo (Leave, Going, 2021).