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Josefina Trías
Biography
Josefina Trías is an actor and playwright. She trained as an actor at the Instituto de Actuación de Montevideo (Montevideo Institute of Acting) and has performed in more than 25 plays. She is Programme Manager of the Las Piedras Cultural Centre in Comuna Canaria. Her play Terrorismo emocional (Emotional Terror) has had over 124 performances in Uruguay, Argentina, and Chile. In 2020, the script won the Uruguayan Ministry of Education and Culture National Literature Award. In 2018, she received the Florencio Award for Best Solo Performance for her role as the protagonist, Clara. In 2021, she premiered Llamaste a Walter (You Called Walter), a prequel to Terrorismo emocional which won third prize in the 2022 Uruguayan Ministry of Culture National Literature Awards. Her work as a screenwriter includes the short film El mundo se ha terminado (The World Has Ended) supported by the audiovisual production fund of the Instituto Nacional de Artes Escénicas (National Performing Arts Institute), Tiempo de Amigas (Time for Friends) and, as co-writer, the second season of Encierro Demente (Crazy Lockdown).