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Marianella Morena
Biography
Marianella Morena is one of Uruguay’s most internationally successful theatre artists, whose work has been produced throughout Latin America and Europe. Her many international awards include the Premio Molière (awarded by the French Embassy in Uruguay), the Centro Cultural de España (Cultural Centre of Spain) Award, and the University of Buenos Aires Award (Argentina). Writer of over 30 plays to date, her works include Don Juan, El lugar del beso (Don Juan, The Place of the Kiss), Las Julietas (The Juliets), Antígona Oriental (Eastern Antigone, staged with an on-stage chorus of 20 former political prisoners), No daré hijos, daré versos (I Will Give You Verses, Not Children), Ella sobre Ella (Her on Her), Bicentenaria (Bicentenary, an intervention staged by 200 women in the public square in Lima, Peru), and Naturaleza Trans (Trans Nature, a documentary piece featuring trans women from the Uruguay-Brazil border). Published in several countries, she was in March 2024 the first-ever Latin American artist to direct at the Suomen Kansallisteatteri (Finnish National Theatre, Helsinki). As an artivist, she stages performative interventions in public spaces to call out social injustices in relation to the environment, femicide, and the sexual exploitation of minors.